
Dreams are Colder than Death
Arthur Jafa
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
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A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery