Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #8 is a conversation with Paul Maheke.Born in France and now based in London, Paul’s work has been exhibited widely and, at the time of this conversation, his most recent performance Sènsa, developed with musician Nkisi and lighting designer Ariel Efraim Ashbel had just been presented at Performa festival in New York. Paul’s own dancing body is a central feature of his prac...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #11 is a conversation with Miranda July.Miranda is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. This conversation explores her live work, from early plays and performances for theatres to projects that are built on audience participation and take the form of apps, public talks or an interfaith charity shop in Selfridges department store. Alongside these, we discuss the significance of ...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #5 is a transcript of an event hosted by the writer Kathy Acker at the ICA, London in February 1987 in which the performer Spalding Gray discussed his work.A founding member of the Wooster Group, Spalding Gray gained fame for his autobiographical monologue performances. At the time of this conversation, he had just completed filming Jonathan Demme’s movie adaptation of his ...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #1 is a conversation with Ian White.Ian White is an artist, writer, educator and curator of artist's moving image. The interview took place in January 2012 and focuses on Ian’s live work—from early experimental collaborations to his landmark solo trilogy Ibiza Black Flags Democracy and hybrid curatorial projects.Giles Bailey is an artist based in London. He works wi...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #3 is a conversation with Richard Maxwell.Since 1999 he has worked with his company New York City Players producing theatre work for the stage, for galleries and as moving image. His plays are set in the everyday environments of building lobbies, living rooms, karaoke bars and highway intersections. Often non-professionals, his actors portray American archetypes through spa...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #12 is a conversation with Agus Nur Amal PMTOH.Agus 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. This interview traces the formation of his perfo...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #10 is a conversation with Barby Asante.Barby 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. The work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co-researchers.This issue...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #9 is a conversation with Clifford Owens.He is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his work focuses on the body in relation to the power dynamics of race, masculinity, class and the fragility of social structures. It also closely examines the significance of photography in performance making and its histories.His project Anthology responds to the absence ...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #2 is a conversation with Kate Valk.Kate Valk is a founding member of experimental theatre company the Wooster Group and she has contributed to some of the most vital and exploratory live work of the past three decades.This interview took place in October 2016 as her first directorial contribution to the company Early Shaker Spirituals was being performed a...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #4 features a conversation with Sue Tompkins.Tompkins is based in Glasgow and at the heart of her practice is a unique treatment of language. This finds form as typed works on paper, installations, paintings and live performances.Giles Bailey is an artist based in London. He works with performance, using texts, video fragments and choreographies to explore how knowl...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #6 is a conversation with Dora García.For over 18 years García has worked with performance to deal critically with relationships between artworks, audiences, and places. Her projects are often developed in response to works by others and deploy performers as intermediaries in ambiguous roles as undercover agents, prophets, guides or spies.In this conversation she tra...

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #7 is a conversation with Jo Fong.Though her background is as a dancer, performing as part of Rosas, Rambert Dance Company, Mark Bruce Company and National Dance Theatre Wales among many others, she also works across film, theatre and the visual arts. Her own work is distinguished by an open, self-aware process and an innovative and expansive approach to research and rehear...