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We have added a new live date to the list for Citation City – at SMUP in Parede (near Lisbon), Portugal on 17 April 2015. Here’s a radio interview we did this week with Lisbon’s stress.fm http://stress.fm/post/115943376554/people-like-us
DRAWING TOWARDS SOUND: VISUALISING THE SONIC
Curated by David Ryan (Reader in Fine Art, Anglia Ruskin University)
2nd Mar – 2nd Apr 2015 (Private view 3rd March 6pm)
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Project Space
10 Stockwell Street, Greenwich, London SE10 8EY
http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/drawing-towards-sound/
Hallveig Agústsdóttir / Sam Belinfante / Vicki Bennett / Carl Bergstrom-Nielsen / Pierre Boulez / Earle Brow / George Brecht / James Brooks / Laura Buckley / John Cage / Cornelius Cardew / Alvin Curran / Tom Dale / Morton Feldman / Vinko Globokar / Christophe Guiraud / Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / Neil Henderson / Richard Hoadley / Joan Key / Catherine Konz / John Lely / Michelle Lewis-King / Anestis Logothetis / Onyee Lo / Anton Lukoszevieze / Farah Mulla / Rie Nakajima / Luigi Nono / Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri / Michael Parsons / Simon Payne / Helen Petts / Lauren Redhead / Aura Satz / Thomas Smetryns / Jennifer Walshe / John Wollaston / Christian Wolff / Iannis Xenakis
Continue reading “Group Exhibition: Drawing Towards Sound: Visualising The Sonic”
CITATION CITY UK Premieres at Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham.
http://flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/citation-city/
28 March 11-12.30am: Arcades walk with Esther Leslie (city centre)
28 March 3-4.45pm: Citation City UK Premiere + Esther Leslie talk (Flatpack Palais at the Bond, Digbeth)
Tickets £8.00 | £6.00
Venue Flatpack Palais @ The Bond, 180-182 Fazeley St. , Birmingham, B5 5SE
+ Google Map Website: http://www.thebondco.net/
A time-travelling voyage through one city, assembled from hundreds of movie clips and inspired by the wanderings of Walter Benjamin.A patchwork of over 300 features either filmed or set in London, Citation City combines multiple narratives to create the story of one city in a period of enormous change. Pieced together by audiovisual artist Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us), this beguiling, labyrinthine work takes its cue from Benjamin’s Arcades Project, an ambitious attempt to map out Paris in fragments which was cut short by the author’s death in 1940.
Continue reading “Citation City UK Premiere at Flatpack Film Festival”
The a/v performance “Citation City” that we have been working on for the past 10 months is now finished! It will premiere at transmediale, Berlin https://peoplelikeus.org/citationcity
CITATION CITY World Premiere, transmediale Berlin
Thursday 29 January from 9pm
Performance at Auditorium, HKW
Part of a double bill with a live network data performance “Pirate Cinema” by Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell.
Tickets: http://www.transmediale.de/content/the-pirate-cinema-and-citation-city
Background on Citation City at https://peoplelikeus.org/citationcity
People Like Us perform their first live improvisation with Gwilly Edmondez in London in January. The duo will be on at around 10pm, second to last on the live line up (DJs follow, later into the night).
Advance bookings recommended at http://
The audiovisual work Citation City, which we have been creating for the whole of this year, will be previewed at London’s Cafe Oto on Tuesday 9 December 2014. This will be a work-in-progress performance – to give you a taster of what will be World Premiered at transmediale 2015 in January. We’re very pleased to be sharing the evening with Jennifer Walshe, Sharon Gal & Andie Brown. We recommend buying tickets in advance due to venue size, guestlists are at a bare minimum.
TICKETS: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/jennifer-walshe-sharon-gal-andie-brown-people-us/
Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) will be performed on 15 November 2014 at the WS Burroughs themed Movement-Sound-Space Festival, at Plato (Gong) Otrava, Czech Republic.
http://www.bludnykamen.cz | http://plato-ostrava.cz/pohyb-zvuk-prostor
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Full programme details can be found at www.glasgow.ac.uk/gleam
We are pleased to announce that after 24 years of existing as People Like Us we play our first concert in Glasgow at GLEAM (Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media) FESTIVAL. This will take place at University of Glasgow Concert Hall on 31 October 2014. So it is fitting that we will perform The Magical Misery Tour there. Vicki will also do an artist talk on the same day at 2pm.
“The Magical Misery Tour” trailer
More about the festival:
To honour the centenary of Scottish-Canadian filmmaker and artist Norman McLaren (1914-1987), the first annual GLEAM (GLasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media) Festival will celebrate his lasting influence, situating contemporary works of ‘visual music’ within the current context of audiovisual practice and providing opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration.
It is only fitting that the McLaren centenary celebrations should extend to involve the city of Glasgow. McLaren spent three years at Glasgow School of Art studying art and interior design and it was here that he first began to experiment with the moving image, and discovered the work of Oskar Fischinger, which was to influence him profoundly.
GLEAM 2014 takes McLaren’s work as a jumping off point from which to discuss and disseminate contemporary sonic and audiovisual work, both theoretical and practical.
Notations and Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)** will both be performed at InMute Festival, Athens Onassis Cultural Centre on 25 October 2014.
This time around Notations will be performed by the duo Acte Vide.
Festival Curation: Michalis Moschoutis
PROGRAMME
Friday 24 October
Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921)
Rhythmus 23 (Hans Richter, 1923)
Duration: 8′
Live score: Giorgos Katsanos (analog synth, amplified objects)
Dog Star Man: Part I (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
Duration: 30′
Live score: Yiorgis Sakellariou (laptop, tapes)
Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1927)
Duration: 18′
Live score: Balinese Beast (Giorgos Axiotis: electronics, Ilan Manouach: saxophone, electronics)
Aleph (Wallace Berman 1958-1976)
Duration: 7′
Silent
Early Abstractions Nos. 1-4, 7 & 10 (Harry Smith, 1946-57)
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, New York
Duration: 22′
Live score: Mike Cooper (steel guitar)
Saturday 25 October
**Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) is not on the festival programme but will be a “parallel event” also on the 25 October at the same venue earlier the same evening at 7.30pm (25 October).
Details here http://www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/2142
Notations (Vicki Bennett, 2013)
Duration: 30′
Live performance: Acte Vide (Danae Stefanou: piano, Giannis Kotsonis: electronics)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, 2003)
Duration: 60′
Live score: Philip Jeck (turntables, electronics)
Sunday 26 October
Social Decay (audio-visual performance based on Stelios Tatasopoulos‘s 1932 film)
Duration: 25’
Live music & video: Voltnoi & Quetempo
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Duration: 82′
Live score: Jacob Kirkegaard (laptop)
This is the rehearsal for our Notations performance at WFMU’s Monty Hall in Jersey City on 13 Sept 2014.
Thank you Martin and Jason for one of the best versions of Notations yet. And thank you WFMU for being the best place to play in the world.
More about Notations here: peoplelikeus.org/2013/notations/
(video edited on the Bolt Bus)