{"id":318,"date":"2011-06-20T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T05:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=318"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:47:32","slug":"glorious-ninth-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Some Very Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2007\/nov.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/nov.jpg' alt='November'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2007\/nov.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>November<\/em> (2006, 80.1MB, 9:41 min)<\/a><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nLast week we heard the shocking &#038; terrible news<br \/>\nof the untimely death of Patrick Simons, half, with<br \/>\nKate Southworth, of the artistic (and life) partnership,<br \/>\nGlorious Ninth.<br \/>\nHe was a smart, imaginative, funny and warm person.<br \/>\nAs a memorial we&#8217;re re-posting here a performance piece<br \/>\nthey made a few years back with Ruth Catlow and<br \/>\nMarc Garrett of Furtherfield.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d like to express our deepest condolences to Kate, Bella and Aphra.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s the copy from the original post in June 2007:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An enchanting piece of networked performance from<br \/>\nKate Southworth &#038; Patrick Simons a.k.a Glorious Ninth<br \/>\nwith Ruth Catlow &#038; Marc Garrett from the indispensable<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furtherfield.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve admired Kate &#038;  Patrick&#8217;s work for a long time,<br \/>\npartly for its sheer visceral beauty, but there&#8217;s<br \/>\nan integrity, too, to what they do, a doggedness &#038;<br \/>\na willingness, recently in particular, to take risks -to<br \/>\nfollow their instincts.<br \/>\nI think it pays off richly here.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a technical, blow by blow description.<br \/>\nRead it then forget it &#038; just go with the strange &#038;<br \/>\ncompelling rhythms of the piece:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nNOVEMBER<br \/>\nis a performance that utilises peer-to-peer instant messaging<br \/>\ntechnology, and the participants were able to see and hear each other on their<br \/>\ncomputers throughout. Working with their own pre-chosen texts, each<br \/>\nparticipant alternated between reading aloud and listening, amending and<br \/>\nimprovising their performances in response to each other. At times a<br \/>\ncacophony of competing voices, the performance was a spontaneous and<br \/>\nunrehearsed encounter, exposing moments of vulnerability, intimacy, connection<br \/>\nand rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating Halloween and the changing of the season, four<br \/>\nparticipants met online to exchange collected data whilst eating prepared<br \/>\ngarlic.<br \/>\nNOVEMBER is a networked performative encounter, recorded simultaneously<br \/>\nfrom Cornwall and London, UK.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November (2006, 80.1MB, 9:41 min) Last week we heard the shocking &#038; terrible news of the untimely death of Patrick Simons, half, with Kate Southworth, of the artistic (and life) partnership, Glorious Ninth. He was a smart, imaginative, funny and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,33,26,14,29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-conceptual","category-documentary-arts","category-experimental","category-performance","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}