This past week has been tough. I don’t have anything to add but I want to bring attention to readings that are helpful and groups who are doing great things. This is in no way a comprehensive list
A Look at Feminist Forms of Justice That Don’t Involve the Police
Northern Police Monitoring Project
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Below is this weeks etude.
Wednesday 17th March
£8
Set in the last record shop still standing, Manchester comic Fat Roland re-examines his life through not-so-teenage kicks, surrounded by forgettable (and unforgettable) pop music.
Amid the cobwebbed racks and fading seven-inch singles, he faces his 45th birthday alone – when a new opportunity comes knocking, will Roland pack up his gramophone?
Going To The Wall by Bebe Miller
archive recording (1998)
free
Going to the Wall marks a new development in Bebe Miller's distinctive aesthetic, not only in terms of movement, but also in method and message. The title of the work comes from an exercise devised by Ishmael Houston-Jones, in which a group divides itself into two groups according to shared beliefs. The twist here is that the new group members are invariably surprised to see who's on the other side--and who they're standing right beside. The text is perhaps her most political yet. The movement seems both soulful and direct. The music, composed by innovative jazz clarinetist Don Byron, draws from his eclectic array of cultural sources--klezmer, plus Latin, African, and traditional and modern jazz forms. The piece explores the usual markers of identity--race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity--yet moves beyond these obvious signs to mine the even broader landscape of human experience.
Tuesday 16th March
$13.50
Created between four homes, three continents, multiple timezones and performed live and online, HOME is a love letter to the people we miss, the earth we’re fighting for and the communities that keep us going.
Join us in the La Boite Studio to get a glimpse of this international collaboration!
Hot Cousin says
Hello Brisbane. How are things? How are you feeling?
It’s been quite a year hasn’t it? Confusion, loneliness, exhaustion...bleak bleak bleak. And then top it all off with a Climate Apocalypse! It hurts a lot, doesn’t it? The future feels heavy.
But don’t worry friends, don’t lose hope! Hot Cousin has a plan!
They’re going to build a Utopia. A Utopia for the end of it all.
Well, really they’ve already started. And of course you’re all invited to join them.
In fact, the help would be appreciated.
Before you come, keep in mind:
What is Home to you?
Is it where you are?
Is it where you want to be?
(XXX) by SJ Norman and Joseph M. Pierce
archive
free
“I do have a tongue
that wants to speak
in the language of cultural desire […]
I want so much more”
Ellen van Neerven, Throat
“Funny how an Indian ‘I love you’ sounds more like ‘I am in pain with you’,” Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
Broadcast online at sunset each day, this performance ritual centres a daily exchange of love letters between Koori artist and writer SJ Norman and Cherokee writer and scholar Joseph M Pierce. Writing from their current quarantine locations in Sydney and New York, each artist will read the other’s letter direct-to-camera as the sun sets over their city, every day of Liveworks.
(XXX) proposes a queered, decolonial inhabitation of the epistolary form—an artefact of the Western literary canon—as a space through which to trace the remote entanglement of two Indigenous people in creative, intimate, and embodied kinship. Invoking the violence of separation and the erotic poiesis of distance, Norman and Pierce consider what it means to express Indigenous love in the colonisers’ language. (XXX) continues a body of work by S.J Norman that maps a vast and growing network of queer, First Nations inter-connectedness spanning continents, cultures, and ancestral temporalities.
Speaking to the current disruption of transnational relationships and cultural ties that are a consequence of the current global pandemic, and exploring new forms for the exchange of First Nations knowledge and the strengthening of bonds, (XXX) bridges the intimate with the epic.
Dis_place by Kerryn Wise and Ben Neal
on demand
free
Originally made as part of a live performance at the People’s Hall in Nottingham, a Georgian building with a rich history, Dis_place is a response to the site - highlighting the memories and histories revealed by the decaying building's features.
This coming week feels like it’s going to be hard. Take care and strength to you
Josh x