People Like Us will perform The Mirror at MACBA in Barcelona as part of their Lorem Ipsum concert series.
26 July 2018 – 8.30 pm
Venue: Meier Building Auditorium, MACBA
Entrance fee : € 5. Free with Amic card. With prior registration. Limited capacity.
Tickets and further info
Gone, Gone Beyond New Trailer Summer 2018
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.
Also, here are some pictures which document our screening at Recombinant Festival.
People Like Us & Carl Stone double bill at Cafe Oto
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.
The Mirror in Gijón
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
Graham Duff – The Mirror
Graham Duff has written a reflection upon our a/v work The Mirror:
The mirror is an object of near alchemical potency. A tool of transformation. The mirror has the power to show us our reverse twin. The mirror allows us to look ourselves in the eye. The mirror shows us the world as it almost is. Continue reading “Graham Duff – The Mirror”
The The Comeback Special
For those of you going to see the The The Comeback Special in various venues across Europe and the US, you might be interested to know that the video backdrop was produced and edited by People Like Us.
Article about our influence across genres
Tom Comitta recently published the book Airport Novella, which he states was influenced by the People Like Us a/v piece “DrivingFlyingRisingFalling.” We can see the influence and know that our collation approach is very similar to a lot of writers, which in turn inspires us in the direction of wanting to work more with text as a primary output.
Interview in The Wire Magazine about The Mirror / Gone, Gone Beyond
Activating the Archive: Contemporary Uses of Visual Archives
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 play new work on Resonance FM
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”
The Mirror at Cafe Oto, London
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 at Splice Festival, London
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/
