Taku Unami
Taku Unami
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
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Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
Ex-Decaer Pinga and CKDH rodeo queens; regular ladynoise hoedown gets gatecrashed by sonic chunder-huffing remedial clatter boys.
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.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.