Friday 23 June 2023, 8pm
Live performances and DJ sets to launch issue #12 of performance interview zine TALKER. The new issue features a conversation with Jakarta-based performance-maker and storyteller Agus Nur Amal PMTOH.
TALKER is an interview zine about performance. It’s been published since 2016 by Giles Bailey. All previous issues will be available at the launch and feature Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Dora García, Spalding Gray, Kathy Acker, Jo Fong, Paul Maheke, Clifford Owens, Gustav Metzger, Barby Asante and Miranda July.
Agus Nur Amal PMTOH uses household objects for storytelling performances and creates art objects to share ideas, knowledge, conflict resolutions and trauma healing. Collaborating with artists, photographers, videographers, and educators, he aims to entertain and educate through various methods. After he graduated from theatre faculty at the Jakarta Institute of Arts, Agus returned to his hometown Weh Island (Aceh, Sumatra) to research and study the art of Acehnese storytelling known as PMTOH. Agus is also involved in community empowerment activities, having joined the Anti-Violence Community in handling student brawls in 1999-2002 in Jakarta. From 2003 until now, he works with Komunitas Tikar Pandan community for trauma healing and peace building projects in Banda Aceh. His work was featured in a major exhibition in Kassel, Germany as part of Documenta 15 in 2022.
https://aguspmtoh.blogspot.com/
Dr. Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) is a London-based artist, scholar, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster and DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor, founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022.
Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation and was awarded with no corrections in 2021.
Jones was a recipient of the BBC Radiophonic Oram Award for innovation in music (2018) and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award composer award (2014).
Dr. Jones has lectured/performed/exhibited widely, internationally, including NIRIN - 22nd Biennial of Sydney (2020) and produced and Owed to Chiron (The Wounded Healer) in London (2022). @foxymoron87 theoweds.com
Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator, educator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. Asante’s work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co researchers. Barby’s performance work is the subject of TALKER #10.
