Core to the performance work of Elaine Mitchener is her commitment to poetry and literature, which emerges as a complex sonic engagement with many 20th century writers, from N.H Pritchard and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, to Una Marson and Aime Cesaire. Mitchener has collaborated with musicians and artists such as Sonia Boyce, The Otolith Collective, Moor Mother and George E Lewis, and is co-founder of the Rolling Calf trio. Her first album Solo Throat was released in 2024. In this session, she will perform her work followed by a short discussion.

Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. Her work is challenging and direct, bringing a subtle London edge to Black avant-garde traditions stemming from Europe, the Caribbean and America.

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