alex baker

Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs

IMT Gallery, London

28th May to 18th July 2010

4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4DF

Dead Fingers Talk is an ambitious exhibition presenting two unreleased tape experiments by William Burroughs from the mid 1960s alongside responses by 23 artists, musicians, writers, composers and curators.

Showing: Conversation(2010) in collaboration with Kit Poulson.

Two buckets filled with ink sit in the middle of the gallery. The otherwise still surface of the black

liquid is broken sporadically by the vibrations and ripples of sounds emanating from within...

Alma/Joe Ambrose, Ascsoms, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono, Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Reuben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Solina Hi-Fi, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomson & Craighead, Laureana Toledo and Ultra-red.

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Miniscule

Oblong Gallery, London

3rd to 27th June 2010

69a Southgate Road, London, N1 3JS

Over 200 artists exhibit work smaller than a matchbox.