Johnny Herbert

Studied music composition in London, Berlin, and Huddersfield before enrolling on an art course in Bergen, Norway, finishing in 2013. Begun Curatorial/Knowledge PhD candidacy in 2015. Co-founding editor of the free English-language newspaper Grafters’ Quarterly, a forum offered in the spirit of newspapers acting as congregators of social conscience and instigated with the belief in theorising as something other than a specific methodology. Also works as a writer, copyeditor, and translator. Based in Norway.

Interests (as of Dec 2015): How technological reinforcement (e.g. amplification and noise abatement) in situations of public address has reconfigured conditions of being an addresser and an addressee; freedom of speech and the ‘freedom to be heard’; theological genealogy of public address; confession, heckling, and parrhesia; conceiving of fetishism; early twentieth century publications; Gertrude Stein; graphic design; what is editing?