Experimentica 26 – Giles Bailey: A Flickering Space Where the Deed Dissolves

Giles Bailey brings A Flickering Space Where the Deed Dissolves to the Canton Liberal Club in Cardiff on Friday 23 October, as part of Experimentica 26. It's a live-feed performance that looks at how a publication becomes a live space, and it's framed as a live sharing of performance knowledge drawn from ten years of producing TALKER, an interview zine about performance. If you've followed the zine, this is a chance to see that work translated into a live setting.

The piece is built around Bailey's decade of work with TALKER, so it's less a standalone show and more of an opening up of the process behind the zine. The live-feed element means you're watching it unfold in real time, with the focus on how the act of publishing—something usually static and finished—can be turned into a live, breathing space. It's an exploration of the gap between the printed page and the live performance, and where the two overlap.

Bailey's work here is a direct extension of those ten years of interviewing performers for the zine, so the knowledge he's sharing comes from a long history of talking to people about how they work. Rather than just presenting the results, he's bringing the conversation itself into the room. It's a good one if you're interested in the intersection of writing, publishing, and live art, and how one can feed into the other.

The performance starts at 6.00pm and runs for three hours, so it's a proper evening's commitment rather than a quick drop-in. It's held at the Canton Liberal Club, part of the Experimentica 26 programme, which is celebrating the 25th birthday of the series.