Austin 05
Jandek
Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
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Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.