Tongue Fu Flicks

Tongue Fu Flicks is a collection of recordings made for The Space, fusing spoken word, improvised music and film - contemporary culture reflected in fresh, spontaneous live collaborations

Chris Redmond
Performance poet Chris Redmond performs Let The Pig Out, about the wildness within every good musician
DURATION: 6 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word
Salena Godden
Salena Godden performs an ironic poem about artists and creative people who refuse to give up
DURATION: 8 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest performs a powerful ballad about war from the perspective of a soldier's partner
DURATION: 6 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word
Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip performs Let ‘em Come with improvised music and film for Tongue Fu Flicks
DURATION: 5 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word
Shane Solanki
Shane Solanki performs his comic poem New Phone, with improvised music, for Tongue Fu Flicks
DURATION: 7 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word
Zena Edwards
Zena Edwards performs a poem about risk taking, with improvised music for Tongue Fu Flicks
DURATION: 6 MINS
FORMAT: Video
Literature & Spoken Word

Tongue Fu is about risk taking; coaxing performers, band and audience to leap before they look. It’s raw, unrehearsed and spontaneous. Tongue Fu Flicks is an experiment: an attempt to bring that spirit of spontaneous creation to The Space.

Tongue Fu hosted a live recording event at the Albany in Depford, London in June 2012. Each poet performed one piece, with live improvised music. They also performed solo, to camera. The musicians in the Tongue Fu Band then recorded an instrumental response to each poem.

These recordings have been used to shape six bespoke collage animations by East London design studio CR&D. You can choose to simply watch the full show performance, or if you’re inquisitive, use the player to select different combinations of performance, film, audio, animation and text.

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Filmed live at The Albany in South London, June 2012.