Join us for an afternoon program of performative responses to two critical new publications. Convened by Maria Hupfield and Michael Nardone, this collaborative program combines the improvisational nature of performance art with readings and activations by invited respondents Tanya Lukin Linklater, Peter Morin, Patrick Nickleson, Skeena Reece and Charlene Vickers. Taking the Belkin’s program series The Score as a framing device and reference point, conversations between contributors to both Breaking Protocol and Aural Poetics will resonate between performance, intergenerational listening and convergences between the aural and oral.
How do artistic modes of call and response, transmission and reception, speaking and listening, open spaces for reciprocity and multiplicity? On the occasion of Breaking Protocol, a book by transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield, and Aural Poetics, edited by Michael Nardone, this double book launch introduces the books as prompts for discussions of sound, art and cultural memory across an ecology of practices.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited; to reserve a spot, email belkin.rsvp@ubc.ca.
About the books
With written reflections, photo essays, scores, poetry and short stories, Breaking Protocol derives from Hupfield’s “Coffee Break” sessions—a series of conversations organized with the Vera List Center over Zoom during the pandemic, in which Hupfield invited international Indigenous performance artists to discuss their work, and who in turn invited other artists to join the conversations. In Aural Poetics, Nardone worked with composers, artists, poets and theorists to consider how “the domain of the aural opens, at once, on to the act of composition and on to the iterative context of a composition’s reception; it comprises embodiment(s) imbricated with an array of inscriptive practices.”
Off Script is co-organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) at The New School, in collaboration with Maria Hupfield and Michael Nardone, with support from the Vancouver Art Book Fair. The program is convened in the context of 2020–2022 VLC Borderlands Fellow Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol (Inventory Press and VLC) and Michael Nardone’s Aural Poetics (OEI Ëditor).
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