What the Narrative Leaves Behind

Institute for Ideas and Imagination

The SNF Rendez-vous de l'Institut : The Fellow's Series

The Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Jay will present a listening session, with music, research and poetry, based on both their practice as a sound artist and writing from their current project. This new work looks at how the promise of the post-war period played out and how it is being rapidly dismantled today. Starting with the decline of the British empire and the rise of new forms of coloniality, this project begins on the ground circa 1960, with emergent ideas of class, race, sex and gender via the consciousness raising group, the shop floor, the sound system, the prison, the campaign group, the student union, the night club, the social centre and the council estate. Set in a fictional part of South London, we hear from the people who lived under, within and between the narratives that shaped and changed British society. <a href="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/fellows/jay-bernard/" title="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/fellows/jay-bernard/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jay Bernard</a> (FRSL, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary writer and artist from London whose work is rooted in social histories. Jay was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020 and is the winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for their first collection Surge. Recent work includes My Name is My Own, a physical performance piece in response to June Jordan premiered at Southbank Centre’s Poetry International; Joint, a poetic-play about the history of joint enterprise; Crystals of this Social Substance, a sound installation at the Serpentine pavilion; and Complicity, a pamphlet based on the collection at the Tate. Jay was a 2022-2023 DAAD literature fellow in Berlin.

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