We’re SO SO happy to finally talk about this. Following NO HASSLE by Keith Warren Greiman, we give you…

THE HISTORY OF

Wednesday 4th September to Sunday 6th October 2013

An exploration into recorded histories through sound featuring… Comfortable on a Tightrope Way Through Dep Downie Marc Baines Ward Heirwegh M’Lady’s Records Heather Faye Kahn Corpsekisser Chris Day Fritz Welch Matt Thurber Eye Bodega Bruised Tongue Michael Kasparis / Night School Nick Cash Joe Howe Jess Poplawski

THE HISTORY OF will feature cassette tapes of recorded music, sound and speech compiled and created by a selection of artists, musicians, record labels and other practitioners who have an invested interest in music. Histories are interpreted in many forms, including personal, emotional, political and social to varying lengths. During the length of the installation, visitors are welcome to listen and read, as well as undertake the task of duplicating a tape of their choice.

THE BELIEVER: Is it true you only sleep four hours a night?

GARY PANTER: Yes, but I take so many five-minute naps it might add up to a regular night’s sleep. I wake up every morning at 7:30 and read the paper and drink chocolate milk, then take my daughter to school. I run errands during the day, and tend to get to work at nighttime, going steadily till three in the morning on different things. I put my paintbrush down, and pick up my guitar ten feet away and try out my new flanger pedal for an hour, then I paint for an hour, and then I make something out of chopsticks and flexi-straws, and then I might write a short story. I don’t find that hard to do, it’s just the way I do it. I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don’t sit down at my desk and try to write; rather, I work at something else and then I’ll get an idea for a story and make a note. That’s how I jump from medium to medium. If you keep pushing paint when you’re tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I’ll stop and work on something quite different. Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I’m like, Oh, my god, I’ll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

From a Believer interview with Gary Panter (June 2009).