Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

the week that was my birthday i made this radio show…

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What a treat for me……. Isotopica at 3pm – Stuart Brisley, Godfather of British Performance Art May 7th, 2013 Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko in Isotopica at 3pm. Today: the eternal and subversive Godfather of British Performance Art, Stuart Brisley. Picking from over five decades of works and actions at the very edges of contemporary art, Simon discusses topics ranging from…

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‘We wanted to provide an alternative to the universal formula of mainstream broadcasting,’ says Ed Baxter, one of Resonance’s founders, ‘a laboratory for wild experimentation that’s available to the widest possible range of practitioners, no matter who they are. Our policy is hospitality, inviting differing perspectives that really reflect the complexity of London as the crossroads of ideology…

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At 3pm in Istopica, artist Simon Tyszko considers madness, using interviews, field recordings and sonic collage in a programme which promises to be very dark. Note: some listeners may find the graphic descriptions of the hazards of drug usage disturbing. Indeed! Considering my own dalliance with curious mental health (addiction, depression, the vapours), this is first in an occasional series…

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the foulest legacy Born: October 13, 1925, Grantham Died: April 8, 2013, London t he solution After neoliberalism: analysing the present Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin The founding editors of Soundings set out the framing analysis for our online manifesto. W ith the banking crisis and the credit crunch of 2007-8, and their economic repercussions around the globe…

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This weeks Isotopica features a wide ranging and difficult to edit (so much wonderful material) discussion with kinetic/science art/multidisciplinary artist Liliane Lijn. American born, of Russian diaspora parentage Lijn, studied archaeology at the Sorbonne and Art History at the Ecole du Louvre, in Paris. At the same time Lijn began to draw and paint, (although she didn’t attend art…

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Once again again the nineteen sixties radiates out from way back when, to mysteriously move things around in my present day. speaking with heather jansch for the first time since 1966 when she was the number one girlfiend in the hazy psychodrama that was the short and glamorous life of my brother stefan tyszko, who, dying in a car crash in 1969, left me with curious fragments, the pieces of a…

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A Fine treat with friend and comrade in (artistic) arms Mr Bob Kingdom. Bob is the one man show, he conceives, he researches, he writes, he presents and performs, holding the stage in an intense and intimate audience with his chosen study. In todays episode we wander around his thoughts and meander through reminiscence, while he sports the Duke Of Windsor’s Haircut, a delight…

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A private view, some public thoughts, in joe strummer underpass ‘it’s so right’ or did he say bright? i was there, i worked as a roady with the clash, small fry, i sold drugs to topper, i once overdosed on white thai heroin in his flat, grinned when i eventually came to, ‘that’s so right’ i thought! Got caught doing 100+ miles an hour on the westway above this (subway) gallery space…

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