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For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
We’ll be looking at decolonising ‘global mental health’. We’ll look at the concepts of decoloniality, of things being ‘culture bound’, and at hermeneutical injustice* as ways to examine dominator knowledge systems, and the institution of psych/iatry.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
