25 May 2013
Tramway
#untitled lipsync 2
boychild
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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11 October 2008
DCA
Charles Curtis & Raha Raissnia
Charles Curtis Raha Raissnia
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
12 October 2008
DCA
Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
13 April 2019
Performance Space New York
Relative
Jerron Herman
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
I wanna be with you everywhere
17 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – A project for voices
Gustav Metzger Kenneth Goldsmith Simon Morris
A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.
INSTAL 08
23 October 2016
Tramway
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station
Sondra Perry
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
19 April 2013
Tramway
John Tilbury
John Tilbury
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
23 November 2003
The Arches
CCI Sound System
Ryoji Ikeda
CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps
INSTAL 03
22 March 2009
The Arches
Music for a Long Time
Rolf Julius
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
INSTAL 09
24 – 26 February 2012
Tramway
Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
26 February 2012
Tramway
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
21 January 2012
CCA
Nina Power discussing November
Hito Steyerl Nina Power
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement