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).
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).