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INTERFERENCE at Unit 44 (Kirkos Ensemble)

Join us on Thursday 15 December at Unit 44 in Stoneybatter (44 Park Shopping Centre, Prussia Street, Dublin 7) for INTERFERENCE: experimental poetic texts and sounds with Christodoulos Makris, Suzanne Walsh, Aodán McCardle and Tom Roseingrave.

Unit 44 is "a brand new DIY space for music that can't find a home anywhere else in Dublin", an open-minded hub with a radically open approach to programming, sometimes incorporating other artforms. Formerly the Harvard Hair Academy, it is a beautiful space operated by Kirkos Ensemble - a new music group founded in 2012 by Sebastian Adams and focusing on high-concept performances threading the line between experimental and contemporary classical music.

INTERFERENCE emerged out of a mentoring arrangement and a series of developmental meetings I undertook with Suzanne Walsh during the difficult months of the pandemic, facilitated through the Arts + Disability Connect scheme. To (belatedly) mark the conclusion of this arrangement, Suzanne and I invited Aodán McCardle and Tom Roseingrave to join us in performing new or previously unaired material revolving around experimental word and sound.

At INTERFERENCE I will perform polyphonic extracts from a procedural-durational work of poetic prose which I produced on a daily basis throughout 2021.

Thanks to Paul Scully and all at Kirkos for hosting us. We start at 7.30pm and admission is free.


About the Artists:

Christodoulos Makris is a poet and writer with a practice rooted in contemporary experimental, cross-disciplinary, hybrid and collaborative poetics. He has published several books, pamphlets, artists’ books, digital projects and other poetry objects with presses in Ireland, the UK and North America. Recent awards, residencies and commissions include Maynooth University, IMMA, European Poetry Festival, The Arts Council and UCD.

Suzanne Walsh is an artist and writer working with performance, audio, and text. They publish essays, art-writing, poetry, and fiction in publications including gorse journal, Fallowmedia, and Winter Papers, as well as in various art publications. 

Aodán McCardle's current practice is improvised performance/writing/drawing. His PhD is on ‘Action as Articulation of the Contemporary Poem’ though physicality and doubt are the site of meaning and the stance respectively where the action operates. He has two books, Shuddered and ISing from VEER BOOKS and online chapbook LllOoVvee, Smithereens Press. Books forthcoming from VeerBooks and Beir Bua Press.

Tom Roseingrave is a writer and performer living in Dublin. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Fallow Media & Architecture Ireland, and elsewhere. He performs as a member of experimental music group Kirkos Ensemble, and has composed sound-works for View Source, The Department of Energy & New Music Dublin.

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