Jennifer Reeves & Anthony Burr
Anthony Burr Jennifer Reeves
An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.
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An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.
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.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.