Hello everyone!
How are you all?
I’m doing this weeks very late as I’ve worked 75 hours since last weeks edition! I’m very tired.
I hope there’s something you enjoy!
Winterage: Last Milk by Lucy Cash & Mark Jeffrey
pay what you can from £5
from November 25th November
The thousand-year history of a farm in rural Derbyshire, entangles with the life of queer Chicago-based artist, Mark Jeffery.
Returning to his childhood home in December 2019 to memorialise personal loss, and extending his body via the wearable sculptures of Grace Duval, Mark’s choreography brings forward the mineral and animal in all of us within a film composition that considers connections between place, language, loss and movement.
We Ask These Questions of Everybody by Amble Skuse and Toria Banks
free
Thursday 25th November
‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ is a digital opera from Hera by Amble Skuse and Toria Banks, performed by an exceptional cross-genre, all-disabled ensemble. Made remotely by artists shielding at home during the COVID pandemic, it’s both by and for people who cannot attend theatre or music in person. Includes creative captioning and integrated audio description. The pre-recorded performance will be followed by a live discussion chaired by Together! 2012 Artistic Director Dr Ju Gosling.
Hannah needs help. She meets Lynn. Lynn works for a company that works for the Department of Work and Pensions. An assessment takes place. And then something else.
The 50-minute audio experience transforms the transcript of a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits interview with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). An encounter between two women, a listener at home, and a riotous chorus of disabled voices, it shares disabled people’s experiences under austerity in the UK, as well as radical, surprising and utopian perspectives on self, society and the body. The work is fully digital. It is pre-recorded, but it is not a record of a live event happening elsewhere. It is an intimate audio experience, culminating in a shared moment of (real or imaginary) dance.
So…you have a drink… by Paula Varjack
free
until 3rd December
It’s the end of a long day. You’re looking at your phone. Paula Varjack wants to connect with you, in a conversation about – the last 18 months, the blurry work/life balance that comes from working at home, and how all of this relates to drinking. So… you have a drink is a six minute film designed to be watched alone, and on your phone, created and performed by Paula Varjack with sound design by Robbie Gunn.
Content Warning - You can talk more about any issues surrounding alcohol and seek professional help and advice here: https://drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
Lipa w Cukrze by Aleksandra Hirszfeld
10.00 zł
until 25th November
"For several months we collected the voices of those who identify with femininity; we asked not only about specific dreams related to sex, but also about the importance of physical intimacy in a person's life.
These subjective stories about sex have the power to free us from stereotypes. By exploring what is hidden every day, we want to create a space of freedom of expression and possible community between all women, regardless of age, experience, status or education. By recreating the gesture made by Nancy Friday in 1973 when she wrote My Secret Garden, we want to create a contemporary map of erotic desires and dreams and find an appropriate theatrical language for them."
Sinofuturisim by Lawerence Lek
free
on demand
Sinofuturism is an invisible movement. A spectre already embedded into a trillion industrial products, a billion individuals, and a million veiled narratives. It is a movement, not based on individuals, but on multiple overlapping flows. Flows of populations, of products, and of processes. Because Sinofuturism has arisen without conscious intention or authorship, it is often mistaken for contemporary China. But it is not. It is a science fiction that already exists. Sinofuturism is a video essay combining elements of science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism, and Chinese cosmologies, in order to critique the present-day dilemmas of China and the people of its diaspora.
With reference to Afrofuturism and Gulf Futurism, Sinofuturism presents a critical and playful approach to subverting cultural clichés. In Western media and Orientalist perceptions, China is exotic, strange, bizarre, kitsch, tacky, or cheap. In its domestic media, China portrayed as heroic, stable, historic, grand, and unified. Rather than counteract these skewed narratives, Sinofuturism proposes to push them much further. By embracing seven key stereotypes of Chinese society (Computing, Copying, Gaming, Studying, Addiction, Labour and Gambling), it shows how China's technological development can be seen as a form of Artificial Intelligence.
I hope you enjoy this weeks selection
See you next week
Josh