Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
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Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
Four intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.