Ian Rawes
Liliane’s Lijn’s Performance of Crossing Map: an epic prose poem, in collaboration with sound artist Sharon Gal, as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s exhibition The Exponential Horn, Media Space Studio, Science Museum, London, 2014
Saturday, May 31, 2014 (2:00–5:00 p.m.)
The radiophonic realization, in collaboration with Sharon Gal, of Liliane Lijn’s gravity-defying song cycle Crossing Map was first broadcast by Resonance FM in November 2013 and then in January 2014.
A visionary feminist monologue as relevant today as when published, Crossing Map was written from 1968–74 and was published in 1983 by Thames and Hudson Ltd by arrangement with Editions Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, with a grant from Arts Council England. In this book Lijn:
questions the meaning of time, enters the web of her memory, and passing beyond the now, lands in a world bearing no trace of man’s presence. There she meets the Last Man and through a telepathic communion with him is witness to the death of her society and the dematerialisation of man.
