Standing in the Flesh
Hortense J. Spillers
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
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In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
A full-blooded, emotional attempt to reinvigorate improvisation from a musically inclined philosopher and two philosophically inclined improvisers.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.