Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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?
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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?
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Morgan Fisher is a filmmaker of great wit and charm who uses the tools of experimental film to dissect the basic presuppositions of commercial cinema.
Jacobs’ pulsing and abstract 3D Nervous Magic Lantern performance grounded by Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Series of short sets by Acid Mothers Temple / Ruins offshoots Zubi Zuva X, Akaten & Zoffy.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival