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As you may have seen in other posts, we are making Gone, Gone Beyond, a 360 surround sound and seamless projection piece for Recombinant Media Labs Cinechamber. It has been screened once at Recombinant Festival in 2017, this was the 40 minute version. We are now expanding the work to be an hour long and it will be available for screening (contained in Cinechamber, which is available for hire) in 2019.
People Like Us and Carl Stone will be on the same bill at London’s Cafe Oto on Wednesday 11 July 2018, Doors Open 7.30PM
Q&A 8pm, People Like Us 8.30pm, Carl Stone 9.30pm
People Like Us will be supporting Carl Stone (so be there by 8!) performing our new a/v work The Mirror. The evening will begin with a Q&A between Vicki and Carl.
The concerts are being recorded for BBC Radio 3’s “Hear and Now”.
Buy tickets here.
People Like Us will perform The Mirror at Arenas Movedizas, in Gijón, Spain on
Friday 20 July 2018 at 20:30 h
Entrance is Free. Limited capacity
There will be info here soon: www.arenasmovedizas.org
Address: Escuela de Comercio C/ Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 1 – bajo. 33201 Gijón
Activating the Archive: Contemporary Uses of Visual Archives
Saturday 5 May 2018
11am – 6pm (Doors open at 10.30 am) / £20 – £25
We will be speaking at approximately 3pm
Tickets here
Processing The Product – a talk by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) reflecting upon 25+ years of creating audiovisual media, sharing information and insights on creating large scale works using preexisting material. Continue reading “Activating the Archive: Contemporary Uses of Visual Archives”
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:
Continue reading “People Like Us play new work on Resonance FM”
FRIDAY 20 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM at CAFE OTO, LONDON
POREST + PEOPLE LIKE US + KINK GONG
£15 £13 (WEGOTTICKETS)
On 20 April 2018, People Like Us will be presenting the London premiere of The Mirror as part of a two-day Discrepant label residency at London’s Cafe Oto. Also on the bill, our old friends Porest, and also Kink Gong. The excellent Discrepant record label celebrates its seventh anniversary with a diverse and vital cross section of artists from the roster. www.discrepant.net
The Mirror will be performed by People Like Us at Splice Festival at Rich Mix, London on Saturday 12 May 2018, at 9.45pm. You can buy tickets for the Saturday of the festival here: http://www.splicefestival.com/saturday-12th-may/
8:00pm / £7
CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE as part of Belfast Film Festival
Belfast Film Festival and Sonorities present a new live-cinema performance by People Like Us titled “The Mirror”. This immersive audio-visual piece uses sampling and collage to explore concepts of inward reflection, outward reflection and projection into the beyond.
https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/people-like-us-the-mirror
7 April 2018 at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st). Showtime 8:30pm, admission* $7.
Friends in San Francisco: go to this at Craig Baldwin’s magnificent Other Cinema at ATA. A stand alone special edit of Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) by People Like Us, billed with Soda Jerk’s Terror Nullius.
We are pleased to let you know that we will perform our new audiovisual work The Mirror at Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on 21 April 2018 at Dig Brew Upstairs.
Full details here:
https://2018.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/people-like-us-the-mirror?perf_no=190
The WFMU Fundraising Marathon 2018 starts today, Sunday 4 March and runs for two weeks. People Like Us has had a radio show on WFMU since 2003 and been played on the station for waaay longer than that. WFMU has supported People Like Us immensely, artistically and gifted us with lots of new friends. It makes our world a much richer place. Two of these friends we will co-host with this coming week. Tune in and please pledge. It’s a great two weeks of the year. The marathon is also great fun. Lots of co-hosting, and lots of marathon prizes to be had. Tune in, and involve yourself.
Wednesday 7 March : 9am – Noon (NY Time) Vicki Co-Hosts with Ken
pledge for Ken’s show: http://pledge.wfmu.org/donate/KF
Listen to the archive here
Thursday 8 March : 7pm – 8pm (NY Time) Vicki Co-Hosts with Hearty White
pledge for Hearty White’s show: http://pledge.wfmu.org/donate/HA
Listen to the archive here