
Public Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
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The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.