People Like Us have just been invited to join M.C.Schmidt and Jennifer Walshe in an improv set tonight (19 November 2015) at London’s Cafe Oto. Expect incongruous ramshackleness to the highest degree! https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/mc-schmidt-jennifer-walshe/
PLU & WFMU docs double bill at Brighton Cinecity
On 18 November 2015 there will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” and the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void” at Brighton Cinecity, at Sallis Benney Theatre. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
Respective links:
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
Also at the same festival on 21 November 2015, People Like Us will perform Citation City at the same venue. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/
Citation City at Brighton Cinecity Festival
People Like Us will perform Citation City at Brighton Cinecity (say that fast!) on 21 November 2015 at Sallis Benney Theatre on Grand Parade, Brighton at 7.15pm. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/
Also on at the same festival and venue on 18 November 2015 will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” with the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void”. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
Citation City in NY and Baltimore!
People Like Us will present Citation City in two cities this week –
WFMU’s Monty Hall on Saturday 24 October at 8pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT : M.C.SCHMIDT (Matmos), JASON WILLETT, MAX EILBACHER
M.C. Schmidt is one half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with Terry Riley, Bjork, The Kronos Quartet, Peter Rehberg, the INA/GRM, Rrose, Marshall Allen, Horse Lords, People Like Us, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antony Hegarty, William Basinski and many more.
Jason Willett is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering, and many more. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance, Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye & his various pet ducks.
Max Eilbacher is a sound and video artist working with a wide variety of electronics, both sampled and synthetic. Deemed “American Midi Primitivism” by the New Yorker and “An algorithm most likely to fail” by the Village Voice.
—then—
The Red Room, Baltimore on Wednesday 28 October at 9pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
MATT WESTON Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs a solo improvisation as only he can.
Nothing Can Turn Into A Void to screen in Copenhagen
NOTHING CAN TURN INTO A VOID – The documentary film about People Like Us will screen at Huset in Copenhagen on 29 October 2015.
Details here:
http://huset-kbh.dk/event/heroes-of-the-art-underground-an-art-apart-en/?lang=en
Support WFMU (and get some nice swag!)
Hello, It’s that time of the year when WFMU is running out of funds. WFMU is the home of freeform radio – which has the word “free” in it, which indeed it is to listen to and enjoy. However WFMU pays for a lot for things in order for it to be free for you and I, and if you’ve ever listened to People Like Us (which you may well have done if you are reading this) or to WFMU in general you know how important and unique this community and platform for sharing music and communications is, and it should not be taken for granted. So… well… do what you can, eh?
CCCitations to screen at Other Cinema, San Francisco
CCCitations, part of our Citation City project, will screen at Craig Baldwin‘s amazing Other Cinema at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco on Saturday 3rd October 2015.
More details on their site: http://othercinema.com
CCCitations: https://peoplelikeus.org/2015/cccitations/
NOTHING CAN TURN INTO A VOID to screen at Fylkingen, Stockholm
Nothing Can Turn Into A Void, the doc film about People Like Us will screen in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 November at 7pm
at Fylkingen, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, 118 25 Stockholm, Sweden
Two films by Carl Abrahamsson. TRAPART FILM, Sverige 2015.
Introduced by Carl Abrahamsson
Entrance: 100/80 kr (medlemmar & studerande)
NOTHING CAN TURN INTO A VOID
– AN ART APART: PEOPLE LIKE US
British artist Vicki Bennett takes you on a roller coaster-ride with her art project People Like Us. In performances, videos, collages and music, her amazing editing techniques and sense of humor leave you flabbergasted and enthusiastic at the same time. People Like Us is like free-zone where appropriation meets alchemy, humor meets social critique and the boundless imagination meets reality (so called).
58 mins. A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2015.
ONCE THE TOOTHPASTE IS OUT OF THE TUBE
– AN ART APART: CHARLES GATEWOOD
American photographer Charles Gatewood started out in the 1960s as a young man with dreams of showing the world the radical cultural developments that were going on in his country. He met many of the iconic instigators of change and documented them for posterity. As the decades passed, Gatewood drifted more and more into a personal expression of sexual subcultures, both in America and abroad. His powerful photos of pioneers within the tattooing- and piercing scenes helped pave the way for the movement that was to be called “Modern Primitives”. It’s a classic example of when art, and in this example, specifically photography, merges with its general environment and takes on new forms that are impossible to stop. Or, as the San Francisco based photographer himself describes it: “Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, you can’t put it back”.
58 mins. A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2015.
Citation City at Whitechapel Gallery, London
On Saturday 26 September 2015, Citation City will be performed by People Like Us as part of the Walter Benjamin Now Symposium – a daylong event at Whitechapel Gallery paying homage to Walter Benjamin who died 75 years ago on this day. The performance will be at 4.40pm.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/walter-benjamin-now/
http://www.versobooks.com/events/1163-walter-benjamin-now
Citation City at Encounters Short Film Festival
PEOPLE LIKE US PRESENT an evening of film:
CONCERT OF COLLAGE : CITATION CITY
and selected short collage/cut up films curated by Vicki Bennett
at WATERSHED CINEMA 3, BRISTOL
18 September 2015
21:45 – 23:45
£5 / £4.50 CONC.
2hr
Tickets: http://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/6803/concert-of-collage/
Join us for the performance of Citation City – a time-travelling voyage through one city, assembled from hundreds of movie clips and inspired by the wanderings of Walter Benjamin.
People Like Us’ ‘Citation City’ sources, collage and edits 300 major feature films where content is either filmed or set in London – creating a story within a story, of the film world, living its life, through extraordinary times of change, to see what happens when these multiple narratives are combined… what will the story tell us that one story alone could never tell?
https://peoplelikeus.org/citationcity
Prior to this performance we will be screening a series of clips using the art of collage selected by People Like Us, from filmmakers including Bryce Kretschmann and John Oswald.
People Like Us on BBC Radio 4 Cut Up show
Author and Wire contributor Ken Hollings has produced a show for BBC Radio 4 on William Burroughs’s cut ups. The show traces the history of the cut up, from its roots in the Dadaist movement through Burroughs and Brion Gysin, to tape splicing and digital editing, looking at the cut up as a satirical device.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33254672
The show “Cutting Up The Cut Up” includes interviews with Armando Iannucci, Cassetteboy, Kevin Foakes (aka DJ Food), Vicki Bennett and others. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 25 June at 11:30am.
‘Cutcast Up-pod’ – featuring additional material from Chris Morris and Negativland – is available here.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/37051/ken-hollings-broadcasting-radio-show-on-williams-burroughs
http://kenhollings.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-cut-up-method-end-of-civilized-world.html
DO or DIY returns to WFMU
Pleased to announce that our radio show DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to the new WFMU schedule – Fridays at 7pm NY Time (that’s midnight UK), the first show will start on 12 June 2015.
WFMU Schedule