Mutual Aid
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
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4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Free Jazz group comprising Matt Lavelle, Matt Heyner (TEST, No-Neck Blues Band) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon