Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
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Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.