It’s Sorta Like a Big Hug
Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
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How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.