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There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
I wanna be with you everywhere is an everywhere gathering envisioned for and by disability communities and anyone who wants to get with us. IWBWYE returns to Performance Space and any space on June 21 for an outdoor pop-up and hybridized event.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
