BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2188@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170407T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170407T193000 DTSTAMP:20170403T122803Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-sean-borodale-asylum-oe dipus/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Sean Borodale: Asylum Oedipus DESCRIPTION:Sean Borodale: Asylum Oedipus\n\nBOOK HERE\n\nJoin us for a wor k in progress performance by Sean Borodale\,  Bluecoat's Artist/Writer in Residence 2016/2017.\n\nOver the last year\, Bluecoat's resident artist and writer Sean Borodale has mapped the city through location-based rec ordings of James Joyce's Ulysses. Residents from Liverpool's many neighbo urhoods have been invited to read an extract\, with their accumulative res ponses shaping a new version of the text. While this new work\, Ulysses R escue\, continues to develop\, mid-way through his residency\, Borodale s hares another work in progress which also derives from the act of location based documentary poems\, or what the artist terms his 'Lyrigraphic' pro cess.\n\nOn Fri 7 Apr\, 7.30pm\, Asylum Oedipus a text written deep und erground in the Mendip Hills will be performed for the first time as a spo ken word piece at Bluecoat. In this unique\, experimental event\, vocalist s Saphena Aziz and Steve Boyland will perform as readers with Sean Bor odale.\n\nThe performances will be set against a new large-scale typograph ic print work (pictured) installed in Bluecoat's Performance Space. This t emporary installation is comprised of 72 individual screen-prints - made u sing Borodale’s 'Lyrigraphic process' - joined together to form one com position. As a composite performance installation Asylum Oedipus transfe rs the act of writing in darkness into the act of reading in a darkened sp ace against a strata of fragmented text.\n\nThe readings will conclude wit h an opportunity for the audience to view Borodale’s prints more closely . Visitors will also be able to view Borodale’s print works on Sat 8 &a mp\; Sun 9 Apr.\n\nSean Borodale works as an artist and writer. He has he ld residencies and fellowships at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam\; the  Miro Foundation in Spain\; Trinity College Cambridge and the Slade Sch ool in London. He has work in collections including British Library’s M odern British Collections and the Jerwood Archive at the Wordsworth Trust. His poetry has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot and Costa book awards. H e was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2014. His long topographical t ext Notes for an Atlas was performed over 8 nights at Southbank Centre i n London\, directed by Mark Rylance.\n\nSaphena Aziz is a renowned Liverp ool based Singing teacher\, scriptwriter\, reader and Director of Sense of Sound.\n\nSteve Boyland is an improvising vocalist\, performance artist a nd voice teacher of international stature.\n\nSean Borodale's residency is supported by Arts Council England\; the Slade\, University College London &\; Trinity College Cambridge. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/04/Sean-Borodale-Asylum-Oedipus.jpg CATEGORIES:Performance LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR