21 May 2005
The Golden Mean
Charlemagne Palestine
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
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22 January 2012
GFT
B-52
Hartmut Bitomsky
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.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
21 June 2023
Doors Open / Zoom Starts / Open Meetup Time and Welcome
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
26 May 2013
Tramway
Public Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
22 January 2012
CCA
The Songspiels of Chto Delat?
Chto Delat
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.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
15 October 2005
The Arches
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
INSTAL 05
20 January 2012
CCA
Kino Beleske (Film Notes)
Lutz Becker
Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Hisato Higuchi
Hisato Higuchi
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Acid/Nylon
Gustav Metzger
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
INSTAL 08
20 April 2017
Terrence Higgins Trust
Community Discussion: LGBTQI People & Sex Worker’s Rights
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
9 December 2001
The Arches
Musica Electronica
Musica Electronica
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
INSTAL 01
28 February 2010
DCA
Semiotics of the Kitchen & To Pour Milk into a Glass
David Lamelas Martha Rosler
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10