1 FEB 2025
19:00

2 Cygnet Square SE2 9FA Broadcast live on rtm.fm
FREE ENTRY

TACO! and Radiophrenia present blurt, an evening of sonic experiments in text, with new performances by Zara Joan Miller, Sophie Paul, Egg Meat, and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau. We invite you to an evening of iridescent vernaculars, rarefied utterances, rhythmic memories, and other weird waves.


blurt is an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast on rtm.fm. In this testing-site for testing text, four artists and artist-groups consider radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. We perform to publish, which is to say, to make public. And our moment of thinking is live on air!



Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group, 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), and Lausanne Underground Film Festival.

Zara will present a piece that plays with voice, memory and her current research around motherhood.
Sophie Paul is a designer and writer based in London. Her research is concerned with self-organised queer & feminist practices, and print culture. She writes about iridescence, girls, plastic, crystal, slime, and has been featured by New Contemporaries Journal, Kunstverein München x PlusX, Pilot Press, Passe Avant, and others. She is one half of the feminist press Sticky Fingers Publishing.

Sophie will be developing a body of work that explores a re-conceptualisation of girlhood through iridescence, in its deceptive cunning. Her performance will be located somewhere in the Arctic Sea, awash with the waxy undead bodies of sailors, jewels, and ice palaces.


Egg Meat is Tooth Rust aka Laurel Uziell and Georgie McVicar, featuring the vocal folds resonating inside the throat of poet Danny Hayward. The source of such rarefactions does not mean that some relation of identity can be drawn between the speaker, the sounds, and their segmentation into words. Maybe the words are spoken, but they do not speak: chopped and screwed and slopped and crude, worms writhing themselves through the loam, at times surfacing as meaningful utterances, at others buried under dense sonic matter.

Egg Meat will develop a piece where text and music evolve together, each shaping the other in a continuous dialogue to avoid mimesis or abstraction. As trans artists engaged in social movements, they will draw on experiences of political struggle, using recordings from protests and archival material to create a live, adaptive work that reflects their collective experiences and remains dynamic with each performance.



Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau creates sculptures, drawings, paintings, performances and videos. His blackly humorous work addresses ugliness, taste, and the ambiguities of language and objects. He is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at Kingston School of Art where he is researching ambiguity in performance and video. He runs the MA Fine Art: Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts. He was an Open School East Associate in 2014. He founded The Bad Vibes Club, which is a forum for research into negative states, and he runs Radio Anti with Ross Jardine. He lives and works in London.

Matthew’s piece will explore the figure of the Green Man, an old god in a godless world who has been forgotten, misremembered and somehow also invented by modernity. And he's not taking it well: he's resentful, spiteful and bitter. This writing feels its way back to a pre-Christian history through an imagined complaint by one of its most misunderstood characters.


Blurt has been co-commissioned by TACO! and Radiophrenia with support from the Outlands Network Exchange programme.