 
Gesturing to What is Possible: Drugs Users Supporting Each Other
Peter Krykant Aura Roig Juan Fernández Ochoa
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
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Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
 
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
 
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
 
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
 
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
 
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
 
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?
 
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
 
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.
 
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?