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Duchamp Is My LawyerThe Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWebKenneth GoldsmithColumbia University Press Really honoured to be in our good friend Kenneth Goldsmith’s book, he gave us a whole chapter. Click on the link below to find out more and purchase one. Or DOWNLOAD! Review here.
People Like Us – The Library of Babel (2024) Performances:17 October 2024 – Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle with Gwilly Edmondez and Jorge Boehringer 13 September 2024 – Vostell Museum Malpartida, Caceres, Spain 13 July 2024 – Con-struct Festival, London10 May 2024 – Flatpack Festival, Birmingham Black Box Theatre28 October 2023 : Cafe OTO, London as part of a 3-Day People Like …
People Like Us will perform The Mirror at Venice Biennale on 9 May 2019 at 9.30pm after the opening reception at the following, as well as being part of the UbuWeb cinema programme: Title: HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails.Artist: Kenneth Goldsmith.Curators: Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.Opening Hours: 11 am – 7 pm, closed on Monday.Venue: Despar Teatro Italia, …
People Like Us take over the airwaves for an hour from 3.30pm-4.30pm (UK time) on Resonance FM on Saturday 28 April 2018 on the Splice Festival Festival Radio Show. This coincides with our forthcoming performance at Splice Festival (12 May 2018). LISTEN HERE: https://peoplelikeus.org/Splice_Festival_Radio_Show-28_April_2018-People_Like_Us.mp3
ABOUT The Mirror is created by first navigating hundreds of preexisting feature length movies, searching for conceptual/actual subject matter pertaining to reflection and projection. The initial idea was to depict the camera as a torch that shines light down dark corridors and as an eye that watches people when they are alone, and then through …
Under the name “People Like Us,” artist Vicki Bennett has been making work available via CD, DVD and vinyl releases, radio broadcasts, concert appearances, gallery exhibits, 360 immersive installations and online streaming and distribution since 1992. She sees collage as folk art sourced from the palette of contemporary media and technology, with all of the …
We are very pleased to let you know that we have another release on the wonderful label Discrepant. Brave new old work by Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. A journey into her early radio experiments with some dating back 20 years! Early Radio Works Vol1 by People Like Us Vicki Bennett’s People Like Us …
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People Like Us/Vicki has performed and been screened at hundreds of venues (Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, the National Film Theatre/BFI, Purcell Room, Barbican, ICA, V&A., BBC Proms, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Sonar (Barcelona), MAXXI/National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Venice Biennale, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City)), Venice Biennale, …
ALL COMMISSION ENQUIRIES OR BOOKINGS FOR GONE, GONE BEYOND ARE TO BE MADE DIRECTLY WITH US THROUGH OUR CONTACT PAGE. To date, People Like Us/Vicki has had 6 solo exhibitions and participated in over 20 group shows including at MAXXI (Rome), HMKV (Dortmund), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Vitrine (London), alt.gallery (Newcastle), Greene …
No One Is An Island, a radio piece by Vicki Bennett originally broadcast on WDR in 2016 is now available for listening and download at UbuWeb. http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_noone.html Thanks to the following for taking their time to give their thoughts about ideas: Ergo Phizmiz, Savanna, Rowen, Mathilde, Lila, Andrew Sharpley, Ava, Cameron, Katja Seltmann, Rick Prelinger, Iain Chambers, Jeff Carey and Falco, Graham Duff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Charlie Lewis, Henry …
Very pleased to be in Issue 2 of Found Footage Magazine, interviewed by Kenneth Goldsmith all about Citation City. Buy your copy here. Read it here: http://foundfootagemagazine.com/en/interview-with-vicki-bennett/ Found Footage Magazine 2 interview – pdf
WDR 3 Open Sounds presents : No One Is An Island by Vicki BennettVicki Bennett was commissioned by WDR (German Radio) to make a 28-minute radio work called No One Is An Island. This will premiere, alongside 3 other separate commissions (Iain Chambers, Ergo Phizmiz and Lucinda Guy) onSaturday, April 9, 2016, 22:05 to 00:00 (Mainland Europe – that’s 21:05 UK time).Background info http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-open-sounds/from-britain-104.html …
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