Blurt II

1 Feb 2025 7-11pm

Overview

TACO! and Radiophrenia present blurt, an evening of sonic experiments in text, with new performances by Zara Joan Miller, Sophie Paul, Egg Meat, and Matthew de Kersaint Girardeau. We invite you to an evening of live polyphonic encounters, failed duets, vernacular enquiries and other weird waves.

blurt is an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast on rtm.fm. In this testing-site for testing text, four artists and artist-groups consider radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. We perform to publish, which is to say, to make public. 

Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group, 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), and Lausanne Underground Film Festival.

Sophie Paul is a designer and writer based in London. Her research is concerned with self-organised queer & feminist practices, and print culture. She writes about iridescence, girls, plastic, crystal, slime, and has been featured by New Contemporaries Journal, Kunstverein München x PlusX, Pilot Press, Passe Avant, and others. She is one half of the feminist press Sticky Fingers Publishing.

Egg Meat is Tooth Rust aka Laurel Uziell and Georgie McVicar, featuring the vocal folds resonating inside the throat of poet Danny Hayward. The source of such rarefactions does not mean that some relation of identity can be drawn between the speaker, the sounds, and their segmentation into words. Maybe the words are spoken, but they do not speak: chopped and screwed and slopped and crude, worms writhing themselves through the loam, at times surfacing as meaningful utterances, at others buried under dense sonic matter.

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau creates sculptures, drawings, paintings, performances and videos. His blackly humorous work addresses ugliness, taste, and the ambiguities of language and objects. He is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at Kingston School of Art where he is researching ambiguity in performance and video. He runs the MA Fine Art: Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts. He was an Open School East Associate in 2014. He founded The Bad Vibes Club, which is a forum for research into negative states, and he runs Radio Anti with Ross Jardine. He lives and works in London.