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Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
The second edition of the INSTAL festival broadened it’s scope to include performances from Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock, Stefan Mathieu, Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and John Wall.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.