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People Like Us DJ set at transmediale Opening

People Like Us DJ set
http://www.transmediale.de/content/bwpwap-soundsystem-blue-hour-pluto
29 January 2013
10pm-1130pm at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Free – limited entry, arrive early

We are gradually adding more concert dates for our new audiovisual performance, which will appear in the right hand column on our front page.  However, worth mentioning here since it’s very soon –

We are DJing at the opening of transmediale on Tuesday 29th January at HKW in Berlin.  http://www.hkw.de/de/index.php

Entry to the opening is free but it is recommended that you arrive early since space may be limited.  For the full details on the festival opening visit:
http://www.transmediale.de/content/pluto-y-u-no-planet-opening-ceremony-transmediale-2013-bwpwap

transmediale 2013 officially opens its doors
on Jan 29, 2013: 17:30, at the HKW.

PLUTO Y U NO PLANET?
OPENING CEREMONY FOR TRANSMEDIALE 2013 BWPWAP
19:00 TO 20:30 – AUDITORIUM
Welcoming words: Bernd Scherer, HKW
Host: Kristoffer Gansing, transmediale
Special guests: Mike Brown, Lisa Messeri, Gerhard Schwehm
http://www.transmediale.de/content/pluto-y-u-no-planet-opening-ceremony-transmediale-2013-bwpwap

PNEUMATIC CIRCUS
reSource Networks
20:30 TO 21:00 – CENTRAL FOYER
A project curated by Vittore Baroni featuring the Mail Art Network

REFUNCT MEDIA PRESENTATION
RESOURCE USERS
21:00 TO 21:30 – K1
With Benjamin Gaulon, Gijs Gieskes, Phillip Stearns, Tom Verbruggen (toktek), Karl Klomp, Peter Edwards. Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

Film non-screening (you will have to attend to find out what you are not seeing)
People Like Us
Screening Imaginary Museum
21:30 TO 23.15 – AUDITORIUM

BWPWAP Soundsystem (The Blue Hour of Pluto)
DJ Set by People Like Us
22:00 TO 23.30 – Cafe Global

Festival Program Overview
http://www.transmediale.de/content/bwpwap-program-overview

 

 

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transmediale 2013 – BWPWAP

People Like Us will perform the world premiere for “Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)” on 31 January 2013 at transmediale 2013, Berlin.

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transmediale 2013 is happy to announce a preview of the participant highlights of the one festival week long Pluto day:

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Elizabeth Price, Ian Hacking, Lorraine Daston, Michael Brown, Kenneth Goldsmith, Olga Goriunova, Geert Lovink, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dennis Adams, John Smith, Sandy Stone, Diane Torr, People Like Us, Boris Hegenbart and Felix Kubin, Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez f/ A Guy Called Gerald, Carsten Nicolai, Demdike Stare and Gatekeeper, official transmediale Miscommunication Platform OCTO w Telekommunisten and raumlaborberlin, three exhibitions under The Miseducation of Anya Major feat. Sonia Sheridan, YoHa, Kim Asendorf, Cornelia Sollfrank.

http://www.transmediale.de/content/bwpwap-program-overview

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The Zone – World Premiere

The Zone will be premiered at Bristol Arnolfini on Friday 2nd November and will be introduced by Vicki Bennett.

Arnolfini:
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/live/details/1423

The Zone is the first feature-length film by Vicki Bennett a.k.a People Like Us. Running Stalker and The Wizard of Oz side-by-side, it tells one story of two journeys to “the promised land, the world where dreams can be made real and reality is like a dream.” The films sit side by side, staying loyal to the linear narrative, but editing the longer film to the length of the shorter, revealing delightful harmonies and synchronicities both in images and narrative occurring far more than either pure chance would dictate or the imagination construct. The Zone is inspired by the Chance Operations of John Cage, Cut-Up techniques of Gysin/Burroughs and Kurt Schwitters, and single shot/durational films (Andy Warhol, James Benning).

Please note: this film is not being distributed as of January 2013 after a legal claim by Mosfilm, the rights holders of Tarkovsky.

UPDATE (2017) – Turns out the Mosfilm do NOT own Tarkovsky films, nor have they ever!!!   We were not alone in receiving take down orders from them, they’d been sending them to many people for years.  We were informed of this by Curzon who DO own them, at least now.  The Zone is up here:

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John Cage at BBC Proms

Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration
7.45pm, 17 August, Royal Albert Hall, London

To mark the centenary of John Cage’s birth, Ilan Volkov has curated a programme that reflects the composer’s iconoclastic thinking, fertile imagination and arresting humour.
John Tilbury, who has for decades been associated with Cage’s work tonight plays the exquisitely beautiful Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra. Cassette players and plucked cactuses are just two examples of the blindingly original yet almost naively simple thinking that saw Cage – wittingly or otherwise – upturn practically every musical rule in the book.

The following pieces will be performed over the course of the evening, and Vicki Bennett will be one of eight participants performing “Improvisation III” and “Branches”.

Cage – 1O1 (12 mins)
Cage – Improvisation III (12 mins)
Christian Marclay – Luggage 2012 – improvisation for orchestra (c5 mins)
Cage – Atlas eclipticalis/Winter Music/Cartridge Music (30 mins)
Cage – Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (20 mins)
Cage – Four2 (7 mins)
Cage – But what about the noise of crumpling paper … (15 mins)
Cage – Experiences II (3 mins)
Cage – ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (2 mins)
David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff – Quartet – improvisation (c25 mins)
Cage – Branches (20 mins)

More information here: bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/august-17/14218

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Sounds Like Silence at HMKV

SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE
Cage – 4’33” – Silence
1912 – 1952 to 2012
08/25/2012 – 01/06/2013
Exhibition | Dortmunder U

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Two works by Vicki Bennett will be included in the exhibition “Sounds Like Silence” at HMKV.

Sounds like Silence (Cage – 4’33” – Silence / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)

On the occasion of John Cage’s 100th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the premiere of his famous “silent piece” HMKV shows 35 contemporary references to 4’33” from the fields of art and music as well as works that deal with general questions of e.g. perception of silence or sound ecology. The exhibition runs in parallel to Documenta 13 in Kassel.

Sounds Like Silence

Download the pdf of the press release

Documentation:

Sounds Like Silence 01Sounds Like Silence 11Sounds Like Silence 43Sounds Like Silence 33

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Critical Conversation Series

Paul Hamlyn Foundation, ArtWorks NorthEast: Developing Practice in Participatory Settings
Critical Conversation Series
Venue: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Date: 8th August 2012 7:00 to 9:00pm
Hosts: The Pixel Palace
Chair: Dominic Smith
Speaker: Vicki Bennett

http://www.thepixelpalace.org/events/critical-conversation-with-vicki-bennett

Background Cultural organisations in the North East of England have a strong record of working with artists to develop participatory arts projects in different settings. As part of a national arts research project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and designed to facilitate new dialogues around and understandings of participatory arts practice, the University of Sunderland is working with a consortium of regional partners (ArtWorks North East)* to develop a clearer understanding of what makes for good participatory practice. The overarching aim is to establish an innovative and sustainable cross disciplinary approach to creating excellent practice in participatory leadership.

Critical conversations: dialogues around the practice of arts in participatory settings
As part of this, ArtWorks North East is together hosting a series of ‘critical conversations’ over the next 12 months involving artists, participants, host groups and other collaborators from a variety of art forms. We are inviting different people responsible for creating and delivering participatory work to reflect on their practice, and to open that practice up to discussion by others. Each conversation will take place in an open learning atmosphere in which artists/presenters will share their practice with others and where people feel able to ask challenging questions about that practice in appropriate ways.
The Pixel Palace is delivering one of these events on behalf of the University of Sunderland. This event will focus on Participation in Creative Digital Media and online environments. We would like to discuss the different models of practice which exist and seek your views on issues of quality, process and experience. We hope that the opportunity to reflect on practice will be beneficial for those attending as well as informing this research project.

To book a place please email info@thepixelpalace.org