Hello everyone! How are you?
Thanks to everyone who chucked some coins our way last week. It’s really helped me spend some time to think and build up a couple more resources for etude. There’s some exciting things in the pipeline so do keep your eyes peeled.
Being brief this week becuase I’ve spent the weekend at home with family which has been much needed.
I’m also about to go into rehersals for Double Ender by Joshua Val Martin and Jez Dolan so if you are Manchester based do come down and see it.
Below is this weeks selections
Hopefully you find something you love
Social Sandwich by Fast Familiar
free
6 - 12 September
2021. The internet. An obstacle course of disinformation, trolls and depressing news stories. But what if it wasn’t?
Social Sandwich is a project about online encounters with strangers - and the potential for connection rather than conflict. Instead of doom-scrolling during your lunchbreak, talk to someone in another country, see the world from their perspective, and make sense of the world together.
Social Sandwich offers encounters with anonymous strangers at a time when our opportunities for physical travel are limited. It’s partly a playful glimpse into another person’s life and partly an experiment in collaborating with someone anonymous to determine the trustworthiness of the news that appears online. You are invited to indulge your curiosity with a 15 minute message-based conversation, find what you and your partner agree on - and how to keep talking when you don’t. The app that runs the artwork translates so that you can participate in your own language.
Five Days in March Re-creation in Yokohama by Toshiki Okada
free
archive
OKADA Toshiki’s re-creation of his 2004 masterpiece “Five Days in March” brings today’s Japan into focus The driving force of Japanese contemporary theater, playwright, director and novelist OKADA Toshiki, had a seismic effect on the nation’s theater scene when his masterpiece “Five Days in March” — with its colloquial youth-culture slang and uncomfortable-looking, fidgeting actors — was world premiered in 2004 by his chelfitsch theater company in Tokyo, followed by frequent performances in more than 30 cities nationwide. For this latest version, in 2017 OKADA auditioned actors in their twenties to create a new cast with whom he took the play around Japan and then to Europe and Brazil. Just as it always did, the work still describes five days in March 2003 in Tokyo’s youth-culture mecca of Shibuya where some people are demonstrating against the Iraq war. On the other hand, a young man and woman who met at a music club in upscale Roppongi instead opt to spend three nights in a love hotel where they shut themselves away from society in one room while the world situation outside is changing from day to day. This new version of the play will bring the current “real Japan” into focus by comparing it with those 2004 versions of how things were.
€5
on demand
On the warm and rainy night of 7 July 1994, a 44-year-old woman suffered a tragic accident. Losing control of the moped she was riding, this woman was seriously injured when she fell on a sharp object lying on the tarmac that pierced her liver. She was immediately taken to hospital, in a coma. All the days she was there, the man she loved more than anything else in her life was constantly by her side. A man of 62, plump and in good health. Each night, the man would lay down and sleep alongside her on the hospital bed. For those few hours, until dawn, it seemed like they were both in a coma, or like they were both just sleeping. The night nurses never woke him, they would only cover him up if some foot of his slipped out from under the white hospital blanket.
This is the final conversation between the organs and limbs of the man and woman’s bodies, as recorded by medical equipment a little before she died of a heart attack on 18 July 1994.The transcript of the conversation was made by Efthimis Filippou. The internal organs of the two tragic lovers are interpreted by the musicians, performers and members of the Ictus ensemble, Tom Pauwels and Michael Schmid, musician and sound artist Angélica Castelló, visual artist Diederik Peeters, and actors and directors Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis.
LIVER’s inner world is the fruit of the collaboration of all the members of the creative team and the different artistic disciplines from which they come.
free
archive
FUBU FUKÚ is a night ritual, swan song, and a message in a bottle home. Creating barriers to travel distance, re-writing history, and icing the black body to initiate performance recovery in real time; the work focuses on the exploration of melting provocative images and forbidden possibilities
a place to call home by Alicia Jane Turner
free
on demand
a place to call home is an immersive sound and video installation that explores queer spaces over time, from historic LGBTQ+ culture in Europe to online spaces in the present day. Exhibited in a unique 1800’s flat nestled above a pub in East London, this installation asks how queer communities have survived, how we create safe spaces through our computer screens, and what it means to find a queer place to call home.
Presented in two parts, The Historic and The Digital, the installation combines research into queer history with spoken word, classical and electronic composition, and a series of videos created by queer people who were invited to talk about their relationship to and experiences within queer online spaces, both throughout their lives and over the COVID-19 pandemic.
This week, consider donating to Trans Mutal Aid Manchester. They’ve been doign some great work with Partisan over pride wekeend.. Trans Mutal Aid Manchester are a group of trans people in who are creating a fund to provide direct material assistance to members of their community.
The money they raise will be used for things such an healthcare that is not effectively covered by the NHS, e.g. electrolysis, gender-affirmative clothing and makeup, prosthetics, travel costs for appointments, emergency housing, post-surgery recovery costs & legal aid.
Check out their crowdfunding page here!
Have a lovely week and see you soon
Josh
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