179° – Zoë Skoulding & Samira Negrouche collaboration

Date: Monday, 9th November 2015
Time: 7:30 pm

In an encounter between languages and sound, Zoë  Skoulding (Bangor) and Samira Negrouche from Algeria present a cross-cultural and cross-media collaboration

Three Journeys in sound/image/text Algeria/Paris/Bangor

Samira Negrouche, Ben Stammers, Alan Holmes, Zoë Skoulding Featuring:
179 degrees: collaborative poetry/translation/sound from Wales and Algeria
Addawise: A tribute to Maeyc Hewitt and Bangor’s hidden river
Teint: A sound/text journey along the Bièvre, lost river of Paris

In 179° the poets explore poetry in translation as a journey of multiple routes. Poems are turned to face another language but carry traces from their source in a process that is never completed. Working between languages – mainly French and English but also Arabic and Tamazight – extends the work of listening that is already present in the original poems.

A performance combining voice, electronics and recorded sound will explore the interface between poetry and music that is a recurrent interest in both poets’ work.

there where a path lights up
the journey sketches itself

another’s path
no proof but contrast to your own

which irrigates which weaves which multiplies
the parallel is not the path

the path thickens.

— Extract from a translation of Samira Negrouche’s  ‘A/rhythmic suite’ by Zoë Skoulding

TRI TRO: Tair act mewn sain/delwedd/testun Algeria/Paris/Bangor

FREE ENTRY.   Bar only No food served.  Doors open 7pm.  Event begins at 7.30pm