MOSTYN, Wales UK announces a digital programme for Summer 2020
in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and The Mycological Twist
We are pleased to launch two new digital projects, in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and The Mycological Twist, which will run throughout the summer period and seek to create forms of collective care and dialogue during this difficult time.
Montez Press Radio
Sunday 31 May, 28 June, 26 July, 30 August 2020, 3pm - 7pm BST
In collaboration with MOSTYN, Montez Press Radio launches a series of interviews, conversations, readings and sound by artists, writers, publishers, musicians and activists. In light of the current challenges faced across the globe and within the art sector, this series seeks to forge a sense of continued dialogue and community. The broadcasts will be aired on the last Sunday of each month from May to August (31 May, 28 June, 26 July, 30 August) between 3-7pm BST
Participants include, amongst others to be announced soon: A.M.Bang, Christiane Blattmann, Jacqueline de Jong, Jack Burton, Caribic Residency, Juliette Desorgues, Olivia Erlanger, Endangered Languages Project, Attilia Fattori Franchini, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Cinzia Mutigli, New Latin Wave, Athena Papadopoulos, Hannah Regel, Erica Scourti, Zoë Skoulding, Joe Walsh, Yellow Back Books (Becca Thomas, Louise Hobson, Freya Dooley & Clare Charles).
Montez Press is an artist-run publisher and radio station operating between London, Hamburg, New York and Brussels. Envisaged as the third iteration of the spirit of Lola Montez (Lola, Maria, Mario), Montez Press was formed in 2012 and has since worked to publish texts writing against current critical modalities and theoretical dogmas which inform the workings of the contemporary knowledge economy.
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The Mycological Twist: MycoTV
The Mycological Twist: MycoTV
15 - 19 June 2020, daily 6pm - 8pm BST time
MycoTV is a TV programme led by the Mycological Twist, a project led by Berlin-based artist duo Eloise Bonneviot and Anne de Boer in collaboration with artist Leslie Kulesh. This second iteration of MycoTV is developed in partnership with MOSTYN. The programme seeks to address the different struggles that have emerged from the Coronavirus crisis, and to form a sense of solidarity and care across communities. The broadcasts will feature critical reflections from disciplines such as art, writing, music, design and activism. The programme comprises a series of talks, workshops, readings and music, using the concept of ‘SlowTV’ as a starting point.
As a tribute to the wild goats that have, since lockdown, begun to roam freely in the streets of Llandudno, MycoTV operates as a momentary herd. Not one that becomes immune, but a homebound and continuously infectious herd. It is a herd that is soft and gentle, that can share a moment of caress through collective virtual convening.
The programme will be broadcast online daily from 6pm - 8pm BST. Each episode will be divided into segments: KIDStv, DIYtv, THEORYtv, FICTIONtv and SLOWtv. Each day will focus on a different topic, inspired by issues and questions that have arisen from the current crisis: Blue Mondays, Preppers 4 Toilet Paper, Indoor Activism, Household Ecologies, and Intimacy.
Participants include: Clay AD, Hamja Ahsan, Marija Bozinovska Jones, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Dylan Huw, Juliet Jacques, Hannah Lees, Huw Lemmey, Nemesis (Emily Segal and Martti Kalliala), Lola Olufemi, Rosanna Puyol, Dr. Sibani Roy, Lee Tiratira, Holly White, Angharad Williams.
The Mycological Twist is formed of Berlin-based artists Eloise Bonneviot and Anne de Boer and operates both as a fixed mushroom garden and as a nomadic project. Since 2019 the garden has been located on a balcony in Berlin. The projects initiated by the Mycological Twist can be seen as a place to investigate the cycle of deterioration and regeneration happening in zones of Dark Ecology.
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Part of MOSTYN's EDGE digital programme, supported by Arts Council of Wales
Part of MOSTYN's EDGE digital programme, supported by Arts Council of Wales
27 May 2020