Speculative Solution
Florian Hecker
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
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A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
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.
Social and party with all proceeds going to the Unity Centre, featuring DJ SETS with Dj@Christelle, DJ D-Harsh, Nena Etza & Moor Mother.