Episode 10: A Means Without End
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
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Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
A workshop for educators, activists and young people to think about radical, anti-imperialist pedagogy, and what fighting for the Palestinian cause looks like for young people in the imperial core. PDF of the resource available soon.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.