{"id":738,"date":"2024-02-08T15:34:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=738"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:50:31","slug":"readings-with-emii-alrai-and-kp-culver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Readings with Emii Alrai and KP Culver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sit in a white gallery on a range of benches, chairs and the floor. The figure in the centre in a roll neck jumper and black hat reads from a book.\" class=\"wp-image-739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.09.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On 8 February I hosted a reading evening featuring readings by artists <a href=\"https:\/\/emiialrai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emii Alrai<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpculver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP Culver<\/a> as the first outcome for my residency at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/serf_leeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Serf<\/a> in Leeds. The residency was in preparation for my solo project \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubittartists.org.uk\/i-can-fit-a-fist-in-my-mouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I can fit a fist in my mouth<\/a>\u2019 opening in March at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubittartists.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cubitt<\/a>. In line with this body of work the readings were loosely related to ideas of boundaries between bodies, moments of breakage in dialogue, and violence and nostalgia within intimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/melissa_burntown\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melissa Burntown<\/a> for photographs of the event. This event and residency is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedscultureprogrammes.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leeds Inspired<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubittartists.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cubitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sit in a white gallery with low lighting making the space look orange, on a range of benches, chairs and the floor. There is a person reading on their phone which illuminates their face into a pink blur.\" class=\"wp-image-741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.58.10-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.57.16-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sit in a white gallery with low lighting making the space look orange, on a range of benches, chairs and the floor. At the top of the image is a prominent wooden beam, and in the centre of the image is a table made from a beer barrel with a single bird of paradise flower and two leaves spotlit in orange light. \" class=\"wp-image-743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.57.16-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.57.16-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.57.16-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-09-at-14.57.16-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 February I hosted a reading evening featuring readings by artists Emii Alrai and KP Culver as the first outcome for my residency at Serf in Leeds. The residency was in preparation for my solo project \u2018I can fit a fist in my mouth\u2019 opening in March at Cubitt. In line with this body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","tag-42"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}