Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
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Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.