Chat with Paul Carey-Kent

Paul and I talk about how life has changed for him; usually he visits around 100 shows a month! We discuss the dangers and the pleasures of books. We talk about some words that seem to have come up during lockdown, such as touch - do we need it, why does touching decrease if you're married(!) and can we just touch ourselves? We Share poems that seem to resonate at the moment. And we end on a discussion around things that we are getting into such as box sets and Martha Graham’s dance piece Lamentation from 1930. 

Image: William Cobbing: ‘Long Distance’ 2018. From Paul's new weekly column @worldoffad

Cobbing considers artworks in tune with our current state. @william.cobbing ’s seven minute performance / film demonstrates one way to ensure you keep an appropriate gap in place… It’s a development from his well-known ‘The Kiss’, 2004, in which the clay-heads are allowed to get a little closer.

Poem that Paul read: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/stars-and-planets/

Martha Graham Lamentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klF8Ob8bRSE

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".  Filmed in 1943 at Bennington College by Russian-born sculptor Simon Moselsio. His wife, who took still photos of the same piece, explained ""We used two movie cameras for the motion picture, so we could take the picture from different angles.... I had the still camera around my neck and made the stills at the same time." Lamentation premiered in New York City on January 8, 1930, at Maxine Elliot’s Theater, to music by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály.