Robin Bale - Yet I Came After

For Edge of an Era - Robin Bale has responded to BLED EDGE by Alastair MacLennan (EDGE 88). Robin Bale is a London-based poet/performer and sound artist. He makes improvised performances utilising verbal and non-verbal vocalisation and musical equipment, including self-built instruments. He also makes recordings that experiment with aural space and noise, creatively deploying studio technology to create sonic landscapes that reflect the fragmented and contested space of urban and exurban environments. His performances incorporate ritualised antagonism, the intonation of found texts and enigmatic phrases, historical trivia, grunts and howls and the pouring of Special Brew onto the floor as libation for the spirits of the dead. The texts are infested with sphinxes, ghosts and winos. These performances have often taken place in, and are responses to, what nowadays passes for public space. www.robinbale.blogspot.com This was commissioned for Edge of an Era, 2018.Edge of an Era (2018) was curated by Helena Goldwater and Rob La Frenais, Alex Eisenberg and Live Art Development Agency. It is produced in partnership with Artsadmin and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, supported using public funding by Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants with additional activities made possible through the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant from Art Fund. www.edgeofanera.co.uk