 
Mutual Aid on the Road to Abolition
Dean Spade Abolitionist Futures
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
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How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
 
2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.
Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.
 
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
 
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
 
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
 
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
 
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
 
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
 
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
 
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.