25 May 2013
Tramway
#untitled lipsync 2
boychild
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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12 October 2008
cloud _to_air
Seth Cluett
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
16 February 2008
Usurper
Usurper
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
INSTAL 08
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
In Passing
Brandon LaBelle
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
A survey is a process of listening
21 October 2016
Tramway
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Dean Spade Hope Dector Tourmaline
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
19 October 2003
DCA
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Ira Cohen
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
Arnolfini
Out of Sight Out of Synch
Various Artists Hollis Frampton John Smith
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
12 March 2022
Online
Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation
Carolyn Lazard Constantina Zavitsanos
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Mutual Aid
24 November 2019
Tramway
Multilogics and Poetics of Radical Transfeminism
Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
13 March 2022
Online
Chosen Kin: Making Our Loyalties
Mai’a Williams Miss Major Claricia Revlon
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Mutual Aid
10 August 2020
Online
Poetry is Not a Luxury: The Poetics of Abolition
Canisia Lubrin Christina Sharpe Nat Raha Saidiya Hartman Nydia A. Swaby
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Revolution is not a one-time event
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
About Face
Various Artists Paul Sharits
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.