Description
Experience the visionary world of William Blake like never before in this electrifying live performance and conversation with rapper, beatboxer, and playwright Testament, genre-defying pianist Matthew Bourne, and visual artist Dave Lynch.
Blake Remixed: A Prophecy blends spoken word, experimental music, and visuals to reimagine Blake’s radical poetry through the lens of hip-hop, jazz, and digital art. This unique collaboration explores themes of revolution, identity, and creative resistance, bridging 18th-century mysticism with 21st-century sound and vision.
Join the artists as they perform Blake Remixed for one night only, celebrating the enduring power of Blake’s work to provoke, inspire, and transform.
About the Speakers
Testament
Testament is a writer, rapper and world record breaking human beatboxer. His play Black Men Walking was nominated at the UK Theatre Awards and the Writer Guild Awards. Testament’s work includes the celebrated Hip-Hop album Homecut: No Freedom Without Sacrifice and play Blake Remixed. He’s recently presented BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Wick.
Dave Lynch
Dave is a groundbreaking visual artist and award-winning creative director. Working at the intersection of art, research and the environment, his work seeks to inspire a critical interplay between ourselves, our society and the natural world. He makes artworks and spaces for anti-disciplinary imagination, which fuse embodied practices and applied storytelling techniques with technologies new and old.
Known for the first moving-image projections on clouds from aircraft, which sparked conspiracy theories of breaking the Fourth Seal of Revelations, his work has been showcased globally by MIT Press and Discovery Channel, at gatherings from SXSW to COP26, from swan pedalos to volcanoes. Recent university collaborations include: three-year medical humanities lab exploring the future of healthcare; AI protocols for image generation with South American indigenous cultures; an artwork which enables audiences to ‘touch’ sleep.
Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, and possesses an inventive and unique artistic approach for bringing infirm pianos back to life in Harpsichords (2024), collaborating with classical musicians of the London Sinfonietta in Written/Unwritten, the acclaimed solo piano albums, Montauk Variations, Isotach, and reinterpretations of Amon Tobin’s work for Ninja Tune. Other projects include Radioland; a live reworking of Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album (in collaboration with Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt), solo synthesiser album moogmemory; Nightports w/Matthew Bourne; and the double-album Aeolian, with the late Keith Tippett. Bourne’s work has appeared on compilations by Bonobo and Hot Chip, and featured in Paolo orentino’s 2018 film LORO. Bourne continues to develop his solo piano work (Désinances / Irrealis / This Is Not For You.), and is currently working on a number of new projects – including the recently-released Hand to Mouth, for Fatcat Records with longtime collaborator Keeley Forsyth.
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