Land Lay Moldbrest, Roy Claire Potter (2022)
DATES: Pt. 1, Sunday 20 November, 6PM; pt. 2, Sunday 27 November 6PM; & pt. 3, Sunday 4 December, 6PM.
WHERE: Online here
Land Lay Moldbrest is a three-part audiobook by artist and writer Roy Claire Potter that follows the protagonist Walker, as they journey the bridleways of the remote Pennine moorlands, with a parcel of half-erased field journals. How long they’ve been doing their ‘research’ is anybody’s guess - even they can’t quite remember. Through gouged peat tracks and changes of season, they try to make sense of what they’ve read and what they’ve seen, but strange encounters with a cast of textual, imaginary and real-life characters derails the extended field trip, pushing Walker further into vital fantasy and a question of whether they can ever come back down from the moor.
Click here to access Land Lay Moldbrest. Part 1 will be live from 20 November, 2022 at 6:00pm (GMT).
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Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, Roy Claire Potter makes performance, text, drawing, installation and film, and often collaborates with musicians and sound artists to make audio for music festivals and radio. Across the wide range of their practice, Roy tells stories built from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings. Roy’s interest in subtext and narrative sequencing is felt in the way they use fast-paced talking or reading speeds, and restricted or partial views of space. Complicated social or group dynamics, and the aftermath of violent events are common themes in Roy’s work and are usually treated with a dark, sometimes wilful humour.
Recent collaborations for stage and broadcast have been made possible by Counterflows music festival (2022), art radio station Radiophrenia (2020), Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3 (2020), and Wysing Art Centre’s Polyphonic music festival programmed by Somerset House (2019). Duo and solo audio works have been released by both Cafe OTO’s Otoroku and Takuroku labels (2022/2021), Sub Rosa (2019), Chocolate Monk (2017/2018), and Fort Evil Fruit (2015).
Roy has published two books of experimental art writing, Round That Way (Ma Bibliotheque, 2017) and Mental Furniture (VerySmallKitchen 2014) and shorter works are published by Gong Farm (2022), Dostoyevsky Wannabe (2021), Hotel Partisan (2021), Tate Publishing (2019), and CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017).
