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How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
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.
