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Elaine Mitchener about Working, Composing, and Improvising with her Voice

Ahead of a new Barbican premiere, the experimental vocalist speaks about her practise, disrupting semantic sense and her love for how people say the things they say.

Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK

Claire Sawers

“Bold curating now about bold curating then, Deep Time runs deep and feels vital with satisfying, intermingling art forms.”

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Deep Time:
Basquiat and Cage 84.24

Dan Kidner

“Mitchener’s passions are deeply personal but also resonate with a broader community of artists, curators, writers and researchers who, through sonic and listening strategies, grapple with the question of what it means to pay attention in a world where this capacity is increasingly under threat.”

the future is now: an interview with elaine mitchener

Michelle Kambasha

on third spaces, the limits of language and dismantling the notion that black artistic expression is linear and in the distance.

Elaine Mitchener on Curating This Year’s Deep Time Festival

Vanessa Ague

We caught up with Mitchener in advance of the event to talk about her curatorial perspective.

Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat

“It’s mischievous, transformative material that helps bring lively, confounding poetry into new dimensions. Anyone who’s interested in all the many forms of sound poetry will find a huge amount of inspiration right here.”