City Poems and City Music
Inspired by Henri’s interdisciplinary spirit, a season of art, poetry and music reflecting on the experience of the city comes to Whitechapel Gallery this spring.
Musician Thurston Moore and arts editor Eva Prinz curate three evenings of experimental performance from today’s leading poets and musicians. The season is titled City Poems and City Music, after an exhibition that took place at the gallery in 1975, featuring Henri and his peers.
There will be a display of related material from Henri’s archive as well as recordings of the 1960s pop poetry band The Liverpool Scene (1967–70), which he fronted.
The exhibition is curated by art historian Catherine Marcangeli and reveals Henri’s continual interest in the patterns, sounds and occasional violence of urban experience.
Moore will be in residence during the exhibition, remixing audio recordings from the archive.
