ACKER OUT LOUD (2008)

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Huge thanks to all those that came along to the Poetry Cafe on Monday 1st September to celebrate and share the work of Kathy Acker.

Performed by Jennifer Jackson, Simon Carroll-Jones & Kimberley Wintle

"Whether a reminder is needed or you are coming to her writing for the first time, the readings of the Kathy Acker Mobile Library cannot help but recall Acker's shameless, provocative energy and what has been missing since her death in 1997 [...] What seems at first sighting to be an old motivation, to shock or disgust her audience, reveals itself to be something different, something new and brave: a vow not to be shocked, not to be disgusted, whatever we turn up in our explorations. Can we make that promise ourselves? When Risking Enchantment bring Acker's language home to the present tense, it drives us into those risks and responsibilities. Any return home of Acker's work is un-nostalgic. It is the coming anew to a state of infancy, to our own fierce potentiality and our first, devastating reckoning with language. A chance to start again from there, in the name of love." Nick Campbell, www.leaf-pile.blogspot.com

ACKER OUT LOUD

Without love or language I do not exist

ACKER OUT LOUD

A public celebration of the work and legacy of KATHY ACKER, with readings from a range of her vibrant and vital texts.

1st September 2008, 7.30pm - Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden

SO LITTLE OF YOU LEFT original dance piece

Our dance piece, So little of you left, premiered at Newington Dance Space in March 2008. This later became a full length theatre piece.

I am wanted in too many places.
But only you want me in one place
and i want to be in that one place with you.
But here, now, there is so little of you left.

So little of you left explores the relationship between movement, memory and embodiment.

UND by Howard Barker

The world's peculiar not me.
The world is this demeaning spectacle not me.

Germany, 1941. A Jewish aristocrat waits for a guest. Evening falls and the afternoon tea grows cold. The last of her servants has disappeared. She continues to wait. Her guest does not arrive, but somebody keeps ringing the doorbell. Then the windows are smashed and the smell of smoke invades the house. Assailed by unseen forces, she piles up excuses, engaging in a battle of wills against the man who has come to destroy her.

Ben Webb's startling and sinister production of UND by Howard Barker was seen in August and September 2007 at the Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice.

A Court & Spark & Risking Enchantment co-production.

Performed by Tracey-Anne Liles

Designed by Pam Tait
Sound by Mike Turnball