Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. — Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. — Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. — Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word.
Poetesses and/or poets, singers, performers, gather in a semi circle around a music improviser. Reading, reciting, singing or babbling. Spontaneity and dissidence are the rules. Spontaneity and dissidence will be the basis for the creation of a collective piece.
Dissidents 3:
Chris Gutkind, Gina Fergione, Jo Wonder, & Monika Tobel with voice, words and movement.
Sofia Vaisman Maturana, cello & words
Chris Gutkind spent most of the first half of his life in Montreal and most of the second in London. Librarian. Poetry and Tales. Recent books are Digits After Orph and Rackets & Batteries.
chrisgutkind.uk
Gina Fergione. After studying at Dartington College of Arts, Goldsmiths Collage, London, and with English National Opera, Gina began her career as a choral singer and scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Since then, she acquired an eclectic vocabulary of musical styles ranging from Medieval to Contemporary music. She performs in operas, concerts, choirs, art and multi media collaborations throughout Europe. She was awarded a composers residency with the Britten-Pears Association and has written a chamber which was premiered in 2022. She is a co-director of the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival. She teaches and conducts community choirs in London.
https://ginafergione.com/
https://on.soundcloud.com/xiASIpl31oDsJRcIdA
https://youtu.be/VBDKAqoA1iU
Jo Wonder is a multidisciplinary artist who works with stop-motion animation, painting, performance art, and poetry. Her Buddhist practice informs all of her creative pursuits. In 2025, Debasish Lahiri selected three of her poems for The Riveraine Muse, a biannual West Bengali literary, artistic, and cultural journal, . She was one of three poets included in a surrealist poetry evening presented by Goat Star Books and Rafael Peñas Cruz. The Clockwisecat, Issue 44, 2025, included two of her poems.
Her poetry book, “Surrealist Poems about Clocks” was released by Sulphur Editions in 2024.
jowonder.com
Monika Tobel is London based interdisciplinary artist working with themes of ecology and interspecies connections. She experiments with possible non-linguistic modes of communications utilizing sound, touch, movement and listening to build interspecies relationship and engage with the more-than-human world. She devices exercise that help her un-learn anthropocentric habits and gain a somatic understanding of being in the world as part of the ecosystem.
https://www.instagram.com/tobel.art/
Sofia Vaisman Maturana is a Chilean music composer, poet, and improviser. PhD in Music Composition at King’s College London. She has improvised with several international artists in sessions at Hundred Years Gallery, Cafe OTO, IKLEKTIK, El Internado de Valparaíso, and Festival Acéfalo. She has also produced music for several plays, and her compositions have been premiered at Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico City), Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile), the LMTA Balkono theater (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (USA), among others.
As in literature, in 2015 she published her first collection of poems, ‘Pasillos de tiempos precoces’ (Editorial Planeta de papel, Valparaíso, Chile). In 2018 she published her second collection of poems: ‘No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro’, (Ediciones Puntos suspensivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina). And in 2019 she was awarded with the second place at Victorina Press Poetry Awards, (London). She writes in Spanish but has translated several of her poems into English. And has performed her work in remarkable events such as FLAWA (2022) and the Tate Late (2022).
https://sofiavaisman.com/
Doors at 4. Performance 4.30 Free / Donations for the artists.
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