Edwin Burdis has been a consistent part of the British performance scene since the millennium: he composed with the Turner-prize-winning artist Mark Leckey in the proto-mashup synth project Donateller, then performed solo as Ed La Liq, a wiry malcontent who sang repetitively and bound himself in yards of microphone cable. A new incarnation is currently debuting for the One Dimensional Man exhibition at the International Project Space in Birmingham. Burdis is fighting for control, as a human, over modern machines, both social and actual. Burdis is worth following, but cast your eyes to the Andrew Osborne essay that accompanies the press release. A lot of serious scholarship went into it, but we’ve a question. Does it make you want to look at the art?

internationalprojectspace.org