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“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Chip’s written some of the greatest of all Sci-Fi and Fantasy—page turning character driven diamond-hard novels and short stories: each a lens that refracts our real-life struggles and desires.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
