Hello everyone!
How are you all? Hope you are good and getting by alright. Just wanted to say thank you yo everyone who came to see Sunday Morning the other week, it meant a lot to have people see it. I’m hoping to do another show of it becuase it seemed a fair few people did miss it. I’ll let you know if more dates happen.
Below is this weeks selections. A nice mixture of live streams, games and archive.
enjoy
The Season of Burning Things by Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed
free
from monday 11th October
A moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit.
Asmaa Jama is a Bristol-based Somali poet and visual artist. They are the co-founder of Dhaqan Collective, a feminist art collective, and were recently shortlisted for the Brunel African Poetry Prize and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition.
Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed is an Addis Ababa-based Somali visual artist, stylist, costume designer and writer. Their ongoing self portrait series One Day These Names Will Be Ours explores the gaps that exist within formal language in the understanding of gender expressions outside of the gender binary.
Jama and Ahmed previously collaborated on Before We Disappear, an interactive film exploring hypervisibility/invisibility and surveillance.
Erazm / Erasmus by Anna Smolar
15.00 zł
until Tuesday 19th October
Is there still a place for humanistic ideas in the discussion about Europe and what will happen when we place humanistic thought at the center of reflection about European utopia? Are we still able to believe in the spiritual pact proposed by Erasmus, with full, perhaps naive responsibility for high ideas? Do we have in ourselves the space to motivate political and social actions, and build a community by the criterion of humanity?
The performance confronts Erasmus with the community of Erasmus scholarship holders, the exchange program created in his honor, who seem to be the last hope in saving Europe from its end. Can Erasmus students act as missionaries of European hope, denying at every step the thesis of the disintegration of this beautiful utopia? Or are they a collective with completely different aspirations? Are we still able to listen to Erasmus?
NOTE - Not too sure if there are english subtitles for this but I wanted to share it becuase it sounds great
Please Leave a Message by Theatre Continuo
Pay what you want from £5
Friday 15th October
At the beginning, men realized their own existence. They might have been frightened, they might have hoped to forget or they might have felt intoxicated with their newfound awareness: They started dancing. And they imprinted their palms on cave walls. To leave a message: “We were there and we danced.” Theatre Continuo use physical acting, visual art and music to explore a world where we do not feel at home – even though we have created it ourselves.
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven by Young Jean Lee
free
archive
Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare was to make a predictable, confessional Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title. So that’s exactly what she did. SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN follows a character named “Korean-American” as she navigates the increasingly disturbing levels of a pseudo-Korean world like a contestant in an identity-politics video game. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a white couple appears and launches into a dysfunctional relationship drama that eventually takes over the play.
The L.E.A Project by Eric Matthew Richardson
free
ongoing
An online, interactive musical horror-comedy that blends dystopian sci-fi with the current digital hellscape in which we all live. Note : Pay close attention to the first page as the first “puzzle” is a bit hidden.
So thats everyhting this week. Hope you find something you love.
Please do share with your pals and talk soon
Josh xx