
Beyond Transgression
Samuel R. Delany
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
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Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.