Tom Varley

Residency Artist

Residency dates: 13 January – 21 February 2014

During his residency at Standpoint, Tom developed new work exploring speech perception and ‘multisensory-integration’; the way information from the different senses is integrated by the nervous system.

Studio visits:
Anna Barham (artist)
Lindsay Seers (artist)
Lisa Panting (co-director, Hollybush Gardens)
Paul Elliman (artist and designer)
Rob Tufnell (curator and writer)

Informal / Off-site visits
Ruth Kempson, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Kings College London
Professor Sophie Scott, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London

Tom's public event (19 February 2014) was a screening of the video and sound installation that he made while on residency, which had its formal launch at Tramway in Glasgow during March 2014. Tom presented a special preview of the work in progress, which revisits techniques associated with Lettrism and concrete poetry in the light of subsequent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Tom also showed recent video work ‘Violence. Silence.’, 2013