Craig Johnson & Madelaine Culver

Craig Johnson & Madelaine Culver, ‘What Are Words Worth’, Video.

Statement

What Are Words Worth? is a collaborative project exploring the possibilities of language beyond traditional understandings of the written word. Engaging with the lived-body experience of perception, this work combines the experimental practices of visual poetry and sound art to produce an audio-visual language that challenges binary understandings of semantic meaning. 

Bio

Craig Stewart Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher currently studying for a PhD in DIY cultures and the no-audience underground at Northumbria University. His work has been exhibited widely, including in Vane, Baltic and 36 Gallery. He performs and records under the names Rovellasca and Liminal Haze. 

Bio

Madelaine Culver is a writer and visual poet currently studying for a practice-based PhD on contemporary British horror cinema and intertextual poetics at Northumbria University. Her debut poetry pamphlet, The Second Dream, was published by Steel Incisors on 14 March 2024.