Ash Kilmartin
“Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box”
TX: Friday 18th April – 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm / Saturday 19th April – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience.
Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone.
Produced as part of a residency / exchange with Radio WORM, Rotterdam.
Ash Kilmartin is an artist and radiomaker from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in the Netherlands. She is interested in the uses and meanings of the speaking voice and in finding ways to document the small moments of private and collective experience that shape the way we think our own lives. She likes to play with the gaps. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. From 2020 to 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE. Since then, she is part of the team behind Radio WORM, and the publishing collective Short Pieces That Move!