Invitations III: Judah Attille with Taylor Le Melle

Throughout November, Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, which is made up of four conversations by Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image. Together, the episodes question the relationships between audience, screen, maker and subject.This week features a conversation between writer and curator Taylor Le Melle and independent filmmaker, Judah Attille. During the UK COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the producers reflect on milestones in their ongoing dialogue on art practice, education, and language."On 14th December 2020, I used my Zoom H4n to record the sound of heavy rain from my window and sent the file to the writer, curator Taylor Le Melle. In retrospect, it was the equivalent of sending out a digital flare. After months into UK COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, without the benefits of practice and interaction in a dedicated artist studio, it was daunting to speculate on the status of a conversation that began in the summer of 2019 after a 16mm Found Footage workshop led by artist and filmmaker Rhea Storr. However, on 14th December, I was confident in the value of my audio avatar and its potential as a sonic invitation. I was hopeful of its appeal, its watery properties, its geopolitical poetry. The unfailing inspiration I derive from the sound of waves and rain, now a motif in my research practice, brought on renewed optimism. By October 2021, our online conversations gathered momentum. The result? A peer-to-peer, interdisciplinary, pre-recorded moving image presentation, ‘A Considered Cut’, for the event Collage as Method, Manuscript and Moving Image: Cutting Edge, one of the many generative events in the conference Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University in collaboration with Tate Britain. ‘A Considered Cut’ is the result of an expanded not/nowhere 16mm Found Footage Workshop in collaboration with Somatic acting artist-researcher-educator, Christina Kapadocha, Artist, educator, author, researcher, Ilga Leimanis, Independent curator and writer, Taylor Le Melle with Filmmaker Ibrahim Kargbo, Artist-filmmaker, Rhea Storr."- Judah Attille, 19th October 2021 Links:Taylor Le Melle [https://sandberg.nl/taylor-le-melle/staff]not/nowhere [https://not-nowhere.org/about]The Politics of Delivery (Against Poet-Voice) by Holly Pester[https://poetrysociety.org.uk/the-politics-of-delivery-against-poet-voice/]Collage as Method, Manuscript and Moving Image: Cutting Edge7 October 2021; An event as part of the multi-part conference programme 'Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now' Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University in collaboration with Tate Britain Online [https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/past/collage-as-method-manuscript-moving-image][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKhvFdwWDc&list=PLf4F3b0ZQ-Hl_mYj9rndodJleGVXitdgN&index=2]*Interdisciplinary Artist, Taylor Le Melle (they/them) is one of the founding members of artists workers’ cooperative, not/nowhere.[https://not-nowhere.org/about]*Independent filmmaker, Judah Attille (she/her) is a University of the Arts TECHNE practice-based PhD research candidate. Her contributions to the extended TECHNE research community includes: Africandescence, Research Poster, The In Between, Techne Congress, University of Surrey, January 2020; Situated Writing, Student Pecha Kucha Presentations (and others), Poetics of Method, Techne Congress, University of Brighton, July 2019; Spectrum Notes, video installation, Making from the Mess, Techne Student-Led Conference, St Luke’s Community Centre, November 2019.[http://www.techne.ac.uk/for-students/techne-students/techne-students/techne-students-2018-19/attile]*Image credit: Judah Attille, Downpour at Dalston Junction, 30 July 2021