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The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
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.”
