27 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 1: Inventory
Various Artists
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
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28 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 5: Catalogues
Various Artists
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
15 April 2007
DCA
Film Programme 5: Word
Emma Hart Guy Sherwin Paul Sharits Various Artists John Smith
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
27 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 2: Repetitive Actions
Emma Hart Guy Sherwin Morgan Fisher Various Artists
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
25 March 2012
Tramway
The Russian Woods
Chto Delat
A spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.
Episode 3:
Copying without Copying
16 October 2005
The Arches
Tom Bruno
Tom Bruno
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
INSTAL 05
13 October 2006
The Arches
See Noise Hear Light Friday
Blood Stereo Ellen Fullman Jason Lescalleet Ludo Mich Matt Hulse Nmperign Oshiri Penpenz Sean Meehan
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
INSTAL 06
11 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Events
Benedict Drew Takehisa Kosugi Various Artists
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
Cosmic Pessimism
Eugene Thacker
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
A survey is a process of listening
19 October 2003
DCA
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Ira Cohen
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Gary Smith
Gary Smith
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
16 April 2015
Tramway
Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political
Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri
Four intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives