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During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
