Nearly Sighted/unearthing the dark
Kayla Hamilton
Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
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Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.