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Dear fellow forumengers, here are the details of a music / storytelling / performance event I've programmed at Science Museum starting at 2pm today. There are already a couple of other forumgers booked. Do come along and join us!
John Duffy's Brother and other stories
Media Space, Science Museum
Sunday 27 July
14:00–15:30
Free – booking required to guarantee a seat, standing room available on the day
This celebratory event marks the closing of The Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound and the opening weekend of Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger Than Fiction. The event connects key themes from these two exhibitions – the uncovering of historic objects, knowledge and histories, with the blurring of fact and fiction – through an afternoon of live readings, musical and theatrical performance.
The event begins with a reading of 'John Duffy’s Brother', a little known short story written by Flann O’Brien in 1940. O’Brien was a prolific author of factually-presented stories exploring wild and fantastical situations. 'John Duffy’s Brother' begins by telling the audience that the story should never be told, and further, that what follows should never be believed. It is the simple tale of a man who thinks he is a train.
Musician Jennifer Walshe performs works by members of Irish art collective Grúpat, who were subject of a retrospective at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2010. Grúpat was a two-year project in which Walshe assumed nine different alter egos and created compositions, installations, graphic scores, films, photography, sculptures and fashion under these alter egos.
Ray Lee and Stavroula Kounadea present The Ethometric Museum, an extraordinary collection of obscure, yet compelling objects. Appearing to be artefacts from a hitherto unknown branch of science, Ethometric Instruments are curious, fascinating relics from a bygone age. Each machine, the precise purpose of which is unknown, creates specific harmonic frequencies, and when activated they combine together to create a rich sonic tapestry.
Book a free ticket to ensure your place at this intriguing afternoon of events.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/events/media_space_events/john_duffys_brother.aspx