Bare bones
Of body
Harrowed hovel
In the site
Of Self
Extravagance of breath
Leeched out
Displaced
In motion
In the taut
Transcendence
Of being
I lift
And twist
Turn
Stall
And shift
In a tide
Of
Unknowing
A voice
Unfastens
Itself
And enters
Its stream
The I
Dissolves
Voiding
Its light
Congealing
In
Shadow
Steve Boyland is a UK-based vocalist and performance/sound artist. His practice, which locates itself in the embodied, improvisational voice, explores the expressive, energetic and metaphysical possibilities of spontaneous sounding and its various interdisciplinary contexts and spatial environments. Working both as a solo artist and in multi-disciplinary collaborations with other artists and academics, he creates live performance and sound installations in art galleries, concert halls, theatres and other public spaces in the UK and internationally. In March 2023 he will undertake an artistic residency with the poet, Sean Borodale at the Steiner House in London, while continuing to teach composition and interdisciplinary practice at the University of Limerick as a visiting lecturer/artist, a position he has held since 2013.