 
B-52
Hartmut Bitomsky
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
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Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
 
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
 
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
 
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
 
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
 
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
 
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
 
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
 
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
 
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
 
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.