Name: Linton Kwesi Johnson
Start: 2019-05-31T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-05-31T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Professor Stuart Hall building, LG 01

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The Mountain of Art Research (MARs) is based in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. A bit like a research centre, except it’s a mountain, MARs supports and promotes the development of innovative art research across a range of  practices including - but not limited to - studio, performance, film and video, curatorial, critical, art-writing, situated, participatory and interdisciplinary practice. Committed to rigorous formal experimentation, maverick conceptual exploration and socially-engaged articulation, MARs emphasises the material ‘stuff’ of art research as much as its speculative possibilities and political imperative.Through MARs we bring together researchers within Art, across disciplines, between institutions and beyond higher education for intentional, concentrated discussion and sharing of research.As both platform and ethos, the aim of MARs is to challenge received ideas and habits; to promote new ways of thinking and being both in and out of this world.MARs is linked to and supported by the MPhil/PhD Programme in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Mountain of Art Research - Goldsmiths

Please join us for an evening celebrating Linton Kwesi Johnson, whose work has always been political, vital and necessary, drawing attention to topics like systemic racism, police abuse and National Front attacks, calling for government, institutions and society to be held to account. 
The performance will be preceded by a film screening of 'Something Said' by Jay Bernard.
This evening performance, open to all, will conclude the annual Goldsmiths Art Research Day, this year dedicated to exploring a <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-research-day-poetics-of-relation-tickets-62205326807" TARGET="_blank">Poetics of Relation.</A> 
The evening will conclude with a drinks reception after the performance.
All are welcome! 
<H4>Biography</H4>
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, Clarendon, Jamaica. He came to London in 1963, went to Tulse Hill secondary school and later studied Sociology at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He was a member of the Black Panthers, and developed his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers. In 1977 he was awarded a C Day Lewis Fellowship, becoming the writer-in-residence for Lambeth. He then worked at the Keskidee Centre, the first home of Black theatre and art.
In 1974 Race Today published Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Voices of the Living and the Dead. He has had four more books published and in 2002 became only the second living poet and the first black poet to have his work included in Penguin’s Modern Classics series, under the title Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems. Johnson’s first album, Dread Beat An Blood was released in 1978, and since then he has released 14 more albums, including LKJ Live in Paris in 2004, a CD and DVD celebrating his 25th anniversary as a reggae recording artist.
Linton Kwesi Johnson has been running his own record label, LKJ Records, since 1981. He has worked in journalism and still regularly tours around the world with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band. He is also a Trustee of the George Padmore Institute. In 2003 Johnson was bestowed with an honorary fellowship from his alma mater, Goldsmiths College.

Jay Bernard (FRSL FRSA) is a writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archive. They won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981. 
Jay’s short film Something Said has screened in the UK and internationally, including Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival (where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively), Sheffield DocFest and CinemAfrica. Jay is a programmer at BFI Flare, an archivist at Mayday Rooms and resident artist at Raven Row. 
Their first collection, Surge, is out with Chatto and Windus in 2019. 
<H4> Bibliography</H4>
Voices of the Living and the Dead (London: Race Today, 1974)
Dread Beat An' Blood (London:Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1975)
Inglan Is A Bitch (London: Race Today, 1980)
Tings An' Times (Newcastle upon Tyne and London: Bloodaxe Books and LKJ Music, 1991)
Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2002) 
<H4>Discography</H4>
Dread Beat An Blood (Virgin, 1978)
Forces of Victory (Island, 1979)
Bass Culture (Island, 1980)
LKJ in Dub (Island, 1981)
Making History (Island, 1983)
LKJ Live in Concert with the Dub Band (LKJ Records, 1985)
 Tings An' Times (LKJ Records, 1991)
LKJ in Dub: Volume Two (LKJ Records, 1992)
LKJ Presents (LKJ Records, 1996) LKJ A Cappella Live (LKJ Records, 1996)
More Time (LKJ Records, 1998) Independant Intavenshan (Island, 1998)
LKJ in Dub Volume 3 (LKJ Records, 2002)
Straight To Inglan’s Head: An Introduction to Linton Kwesi Johnson (Island, 2003)
LKJ Live in Paris (LKJ Records, 2004)–CD and DVD
 
This event is part of Transmissions series hosted by the Mountain of Art Research and generously funded by the CHASE research consortium. 
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Professor Stuart Hall building, LG 01

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