Against Inclusion
Dean Spade Eric A Stanley Mujeres Creando
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
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What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
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.