Austin 05
Jandek
Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
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Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s