Live Performance at Star and Shadow (NewcastleGateshead)
Saturday 13th March 2010 from 9:00pm until 2:00am
Vicki Bennett has co-curated an evening with AV Festival entitled
Nothing is New, Everything Is Permitted.
The title is a pun on the phrase ‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’, famously quoted by William S Burroughs, who helped popularise cut-up culture. This incredible evening includes live performances by artists, musicians and poets who have creatively dissected, recycled and quoted. Including: Genre Collage the new live audio-visual set from People Like Us that collages film genres using well-known feature films; spoken word performance by UbuWeb and WFMU’s Kenneth Goldsmith; live improviser Gwilly Edmondez who uses voice, tapes, decks and samples; debut performance of Café Carbon by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman) and whirlwind wizard of the ivories Felix Kubin. With UbuWeb Radio and other visual delights.
Other highlights of the festival that we recommend (which are separate events to the above) are appearances by Rick Prelinger, Craig Baldwin, and Kenneth Anger. Separately, we might add!
Genre Collage, the new live set by People Like Us, is reviewed in an article by Jim Supanick in Film Comment magazine, take a look at the online version here.
It has occurred to us how nice films look when viewed on an iPod Touch or iPhone, especially of course ours! So we have made all the People Like Us films we can find (nearly 2.5 hours worth) into files that will fit onto that lovely little screen, and zipped them up, ready for you to purchase through Paypal at an extremely reasonable price.
Firstly make the purchase by Paypal, and then we will email you a weblink to two zipped folders, which you can download. Please note, the total size of these combined zips are 487MB, and once unzipped they contain multiple small mp4s, the right size for your iPod/iPhone. ONLY make the purchase if you have access to broadband! We cannot provide these files individually.
Once your iPod or iPhone is connected to your computer and iTunes is open, all you need to do is drag the films into the relevant iTunes folder, in the same way you would add any other media from within your computer.
People Like Us will be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's show "PM" this afternoon about the resurgence of cassettes and cassette labels in relation to their recent release on the TapeWorm label of "Baudrillard - Le Xerox et l'Infini" as read by Patricia & Ellen.
The show is on between 5pm and 6pm GMT. The feature is also included now at this link:
Here's a BBC news feature on the show - it's on the BBC NEWS front page as we type this. Very surreal! There's a screenshot lower down this page since it won't stay there forever. Probably not anyway. Here's the feature's permalink:
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