In celebration of the greatly anticipated CUT-UPS @2023 conference, by the European Beat Studies Network, taking place in Paris, I created this video cut-up performance, recorded at my bunker in Copenhagen.
In it, I perform from my books Would you like to come home?, released by Moloko print, one of the sponsors of the conference, and “Atemporal”, and the Gettin’ On With It video is one of the poems from the book The Ways of the Firefly, also released by Moloko print.
The EBSN network is very dear to me, because it has welcomed my work, my podcast, and my mind, with open arms and introduced me to a community with similar interests and great food for thought. The founder of this network, Oliver Harris, is also the author of the prologue of my book Would you like to come home? Which is why this performance is dedicated to him and to Ralf Friel, director of Moloko.
The European Beat Studies Network brings together, from across and beyond Europe, those who share an academic or creative interest in the broad field of Beat culture. The EBSN aims to be inclusive; a genuine community of scholars and students, writers and artists, which not only reaches out to all kinds of people who work on the Beats, but also actively invites their participation.
CUT-UPS@2023 is the post-Covid version of CUT-UPS@60, an EBSN Special Conference that was scheduled to happen in 2020 to mark the 60th anniversary of the first publications to use the cut-up methods initiated by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel in Paris.
Elizabeth Torres 