
Blackness, Animality and the Unsovereign
Che Gossett
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
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How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.