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A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Discussion with David Keenan: an author, critic and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for the reviews and features he has contributed to The Wire.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
