Break/Open Meetup time*
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
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Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
This closing session will be a space for reflection and feedback. We can discuss ways we can share what we’ve learned and explored with our wider communities. We can talk about if we want to do more sessions and /or projects together.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.