Lily Greenham’s computing works, first exhibited as part of the Badischer Kunstverein exhibition in Karlsruhe (March–May 2024) that I co-curated with Andrew Walsh-Lister, Anja Casser and Alex Balgiu, are now travelling to Vienna, where they will be exhibited in the excellent travelling show ‘Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991.’ The exhibition runs in Vienna from 2025-02-28 to 2025-05-25 and is well worth a visit.
More information about the exhibition and how to visit can be found here.
Symposium: Tune in to Reality! at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2/3 May 2024
Coming up on 2/3 May 2024 is the symposium Tune in to Reality! exploring the life and work of the artist Lily Greenham. Part of the exhibition Lily Greenham: An Art of Living that I have been fortunate enough to co-curate with Anja Casser, Andrew Walsh-Lister and Alex Balgiu, the symposium is going to feature a number of performance responses to Greenham’s work, as well as an incredible array of talks exploring different parts of Greenham’s practice and life. The event, co-hosted by Bricks from the Kiln and the Kunsteverein, also marks the launch of a new publication of Tendentious Neo-Semantics, a record by Greenham originally released by Edition Hoffman. Full information below, the event is free to access.
Tune in to Reality! A symposium on the life and work of Lily Greenham at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2/3 May 2024.
The cover of Tendentious Neo-Semantics (1970) by Lily Greenham
Interview – radio interview with SWR Germany on 'Lily Greenham: An Art of Living' at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
An interview on the German radio station SWR discussing the recently opened exhibition ‘Lily Greenham: An Art of Living’ at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Publication – 'Tune in to Reality!' by Lily Greenham: Distance No Object
Lily Greenham’s ‘Tune in to Reality!’ has been republished in the last few weeks by Luke Roberts at Distance No Object. A big thanks to Luke and all involved - you can buy the book here. I’ll post more about Lily Greenham’s work in the future, especially in relation to the Lily Greenham Archive at Goldsmiths, where myself and other members of the Lily Greenham advisory board have been developing and preserving Greenham’s extraordinary work for future generations.
Lily Greenham was born in Vienna in 1924. She was a visual artist, writer, and composer, and a performer of concrete and sound poetry. You can listen to her here and here, and there’s a 1972 interview here.
Tune in to Reality! was her only published book of poems, appearing in an edition of c.100 copies from Bob Cobbing’s Writers Forum in 1974. This new edition is transcribed from the original, and presents Greenham’s wildly inventive ‘neo-semantics’ in their full glory. 23 poems, 7 translations (into German, French, Danish, and Spanish), all of them daring you to blink first.
In her own words ‘an outsider even amongst outsiders’, Greenham’s later career involved collaborations with film-makers including Lis Rhodes, and work based in computer graphics. She died in London in 2011.
This book appears with the co-operation of the trustees of the Lily Greenham Archive (Goldsmiths Special Collections), with grateful thanks.
Read an excerpt here.(text quoted from Distance No Object)