Sky Will Learn Sky creates a soundtrack for future mythology. Crisscrossing forms and modes, its multiple, temporary languages open freshly toward a contested yet consistent perceptual commonality—the sky. A phrase from the words of Alice Coltrane, “At dawn, sit at the Feet of Action. At noon, be at the Hand of Might. At eventide, be so big, that sky will learn Sky” unfurls on a banner in Cauleen Smith’s film Sojourner (2018). It loans the project its title, describing insurgent joy with audacity and poetry.
- Anne Lesley Selcer
Featuring new work by artists, musicians and poets:
Courage
Sally Decker
Evan Kennedy
Sadie Greyduck
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Juliana Huxtable
Paul Ebenkamp
Jude Browning
Joseph Mosconi
Stephanie Barber
DROUGHT SPA
Cy Ozgood
Deep Strawberry
WHAT ARE WORDS WORTH?
Gallery North.
23-24th April.
performance programme convened by Corin Sworn, with Sophie Seita and Nina Wakeford
I was invited to deliver a performance lecture at 2023's British Art Network conference.
The conference, 'British Art After Britain' convened by Dr Marcus Jack, considered the cultural legacies of devolution. As questions about statehood, democracy and (dis)unity rise anew in the year of a Coronation, British Art after Britain reflects on the influence of regionalisation since the historic moment of the Good Friday Agreement and founding of parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Held in collaboration with Hunterian Art Gallery and staged at Kelvinhall in Glasgow, 24-25 November 2023.
Supported by Tate and The Paul Mellon Centre.
BAN Annual conference, British Art After Britain, Kelvin Hall Glasgow, November 2023. Photography by Erika Stevenson.
BAN Annual conference, British Art After Britain, Kelvin Hall Glasgow, November 2023. Photography by Erika Stevenson.
IN PROGRESS performance-for-video made in collaboration with Natalie McGhee and Alex Impey. Edited by Yve Lomax, Becoming Fireflies. With special thanks to the CCA, Glasgow for venue and technical assistance.
Friday 9 February 2024, 6.30-8.30pm. Performance w/ Corin Sworn.
11/11/23
performance as part of Voices in Buildings ii
Curated by Benjamin Owen & Dougal Marwick.
Between 2020-2023 I curated At Practise as invited Associate Programmer at David Dale Gallery & Studios. The project began as Pre-ramble in 2018 and included +30 artists. Participating artists were supported to use the gallery as an experimental testing ground to share new work with a live audience. This included peer-led discussions, development fees, workshops, and a 4-part publication series (designed by Maeve Redmond).
Supported by Creative Scotland.
‘A HEADLESS STATUE OF NAUSICCA SEEMS TO FLOAT ON A ROCK IN FRONT OF THE GRAVEYARD’
I am in Mazunte, a hippy dystopia beach town.
We have a pair of russet crowned mot mot’s living on the compost heap outside our door. I mistook them for mangos with eyes.
An evening of live work exploring modes of delivery hosted at David Dale Gallery. June, 2022
2022
live performance, 16 minutes
I worked with professional voice actor Lesley Hart between March-May. Through a series of discursive rehearsals Lesley and I experimented with work with breath, scoring enunciation, delivery, and the heightened uses of voice in live address. Lesley specialises in the Nadine George technique, a distinct form of vocal training which focuses on ways of freeing the voice to move beyond ‘obstructions’. Hart’s methods of vocality challenge standards of articulation to interplay with notions of credibility, specifically in judicial contexts speaking to broader feminist politics.
Supported by Glasgow Visual Arts and Craft Award & Creative Scotland.
Written and performed by Corin Sworn & Jude Browning
mixed by Richard McMaster
aired on Radiophrenia 18/2/22
A script written for two voices that shifts between descriptions of clothes and tactile sensations of wear. Dressing becomes a site to experiment with what inarticulate marks might affect in our system of signs. By exploring themes of proximity and distance, the diffuse snippets of these garments invert agentive and passive object/subject narratives. The Unpickers takes the daily practice of dressing to propose spaces where fantasy and reality are not decided.
Image credit: Jude Browning, 2022.
Susan Sontag Notes on Camp, in Against Interpretation (1966)
Edited by Jude Browning
Designed by Maeve Redmond
Printed by Sunday’s Print Service
She’s a Bit Much is an online research and alternative publishing platform devised by Catalina Barroso Luque and Jude Browning. Our project explored the performativity of gendered, sexual and racial dynamics in relation to interdisciplinary writing and performance practices. The website hosted writing, performance documentation, research links and transcribed conversations between our invited contributors; Conor Baird, Lía García, Anne Lesley Selcer and Nico Novatore. Image from live performance, Market Gallery, September 2021
Virtue-is-sic Audio Link
Audio essay with recorded performances by Liv Fontaine and clips from a conversation between Jude Browning and Jessa Mockridge. Jessa discusses the agency of listening and her facilitation of a remote residency at Wysing this summer. The latter part of the programme shares an essay read by Jude, she reflects upon coaching the voice for modes of public address, early monologue performances by Karen Finley and posthuman scholar Patricia MacCormack’s theory becomings cunt.
Recited monologue performance, 20 minutes. South London Gallery. Commissioned by Bloomberg New Writing New Contemporaries
Performance-lecture, 50 minutes. Leeds Art Gallery.
Commissioned by Bloomberg New Writing with New Contemporaries.
with thanks to the University Archives and Special Collections Centre.
Lydia Lunch in conversation, Her Noise Archive, 2005.
Performance-lecture, 50 minutes. Leeds Art Gallery.
Commissioned by Bloomberg New Writing New Contemporaries.
flop to the floor: a performance lecture follows the Study Room Residency undertaken by artist and researcher Jude Browning at LADA in June 2019. This live event looks at notions of female vocality and expectations of formal public address and will begin with a new performance by Amelia Barratt.
Jude Browning will present a performance lecture, with sections of the script taken from her Ph.D. thesis Mouthwork: Staged Presentation and Laboured Expression and drawing on Karen Finley's 1966 performance It's My Body and Lydia Lunch’s satirical screenplay Psychomenstrum (1989/93). Browning has worked with choreographer Janice Parker on the movement for this performance, looking at the physical gesture of 'the flop' as a means to undermine the conventions of Western power dynamics performed in public speaking.
Live performance commission for Hanging Out
“Hanging Out, this year’s artist moving image festival, is programmed by artists Emmie McLuskey, Ima-Abasi Okon and Kimberley O’Neill. As part of their ongoing conversation, the programmers have continually returned to what it means to ‘hang outside’ typical moving image conventions and social structures. The work included in the festival explores themes of repetition, memorial, outside-ness and gesture. The themes listed attempt to articulate a praxis whereby an operation of hanging out is evidenced in film as a network of elements.”
Jude Browning and Anne-Marie Copestake, meeting for the first time, filmed an interview session at Jude’s flat in May 2019. The extracts of the interview below are taken from a much longer version.
Commissioned interview from MAP Magazine, May 2019
Pre-Ramble is a performance series co-programme with David Dale Gallery which uses the rehearsal as form in the context of a white gallery space. Previous events include work by Lucy Duncombe and Jess Higgens, more events to come Spring 2019.
An evening of live work alongside Amelia Barratt, Catalina Barroso-Luque and Jessa Mockridge & Chris Timms.
Performed and written with Amelia Barratt as part of Glasgow International 2018. In collaboration with Emmie McLuskey as part of Old Hair, The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow).
Recited monologue performance as part of “To publish, to speak, to write, to move” CCA Creative Lab Residency with Emmie McCluskey.
'“Drawn from the historical and contemporary positions embodied in performance and participatory practices and reflecting on Ulay’s oeuvre, the symposium will bring leading international thinkers to Scotland to examine vulnerability, generosity, and relationality of the self to the other, the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance and the ethical role of art in social and cultural practices. “
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/cooper-gallery/events/ulayinternationalsymposium/#d.en.466595
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/cooper-gallery/exhibitions/ulaysoyouseeme/