Anne-James Chaton, Stine Motland, Ian Hatcher

Anne-James Chaton is a French artist. He published several books published by Al Dante and joined the German label Raster-Noton in 2011 with Evénements 09 and Décade published in 2012. He has given many performances in France and abroad. He has worked with the group of Dutch post-rock band The Ex and released two albums, The Journalist (2008), and Transfer (2013), with the English guitarist Andy Moor. He worked on the albums Unitxt (2008) and Univrs (2011) by German artist Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. In 2013 he started a trio with Andy Moor and Thurston Moore, guitarist of Sonic Youth. His plastic and visual works, drawn from his writing materials, have been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad.

Stine Janvin Motland is a performer and composer based in Stavanger, Oslo and Berlin. With an instrumental and physical approach, she explores and pushes the limits of the natural acoustics of the voice, and what a singer can, and cannot be. Her work involves elements of conceptual and spontaneous composition, structured improvisation, performance, and sound poetry. Ongoing projects are the solo piece In Labour, Native Instrument with Felicity Mangan, and brigitte & paula band with Maria Ramvi and Camilla Vislie. In 2014 Stine released two solo albums; Ok, wow (+3db) and In Labour (Pica Disk). Alongside her own work, Stine is a performer of contemporary music, and works with composition, movement and voice in a number of interdisciplinary projects, such as the solo performance Prelude (Janvin Motland/Sickle/Leguay). She is currently performing in the baby opera Korall Koral (Dieserud/Lindgren & Maja Ratkje) and in the live band of Meshes of Voice (Susanna and Jenny Hval).

Ian Hatcher is a performance poet and programmer whose work explores cognition in context of digital systems. He is the author of Prosthesis (Poor Claudia 2016) and The All-New (Anomalous 2015). With Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin, he is co-creator of Abra, a conjoined analog (artist's book) and digital (iOS app) poetry instrument/spellbook.

International Festival of Text-Sound Poetry is presented by ISSUE Project Room, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Goethe-Institut New York and Wendy’s Subway. Curated by Lawrence Kumpf, ISSUE Project Room Artistic Director, Marc Matter, Rachel Valinsky, and Macgregor Card.

Made possible by support from the Goethe-Institut New York, the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.