Hotel Diaries 1-8
John Smith
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).
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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).
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.