I wanna be with you everywhere Solstice Gathering 2024
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
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Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.