
Consequences and complicities of conceptualism
Mark Sanders Vanessa Place
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
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Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
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?
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Offering a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves. Expect fire and a little bit of smoke. Concluding with a D/deaf centered social space with conversational interpreters available for those who do not speak ASL.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves