 
Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
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A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
 
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
 
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
 
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
 
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
 
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.
 
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
 
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
 
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
 
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
 
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
 
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.