Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
Thanks! We made it!!! – 24 March
The annual WFMU fundraising marathon is now on! This is the time when you can pledge money to the radio station and get swag and prizes in return. Everyone works very hard at the station to bring you interesting eclectic audio that it is hard to hear elsewhere, and the shows are archived 24/7 too, there are 13 years of People Like Us radio shows so far!
Click here to make a pledge or call 800-989-9368 if you’re in the US.
Here is an excerpt from our current audiovisual performance Citation City, which is still very much available as a performance, but time to set this part free!
We were recently interviewed by Jez Riley French in this magazine:
WDR 3 Open Sounds presents : No One Is An Island by Vicki Bennett
Vicki Bennett was commissioned by WDR (German Radio) to make a 28-minute radio work called No One Is An Island. This will premiere, alongside 3 other separate commissions (Iain Chambers, Ergo Phizmiz and Lucinda Guy) on
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 22:05 to 00:00 (Mainland Europe – that’s 21:05 UK time).
Background info http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-open-sounds/from-britain-104.html
Update: this piece is also online at UbuWeb! http://ubu.com/sound/plu_noone.html
Thanks to the following for taking their time to give me their thoughts about ideas:
Ergo Phizmiz, Ava, Savanna, Rowen, Mathilde, Lila, Andrew Sharpley, Cameron, Katja Seltmann, Rick Prelinger, Iain Chambers, Jeff Carey and Falco, Graham Duff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Charlie Lewis, Henry Lowengard, Tim Maloney, Kevin Hamilton, Akāshamitra, Dorian Jones and Lenny, Marcus Boon and Jesse, Saraka, Suddhaka and Sunayaka.
No One Is An Island
Where do ideas come from? Are they our own or are we channeling some spark from a larger flame? In this programme we examine the relationship between artists, writers, scientists and philosophers and the receiving, possession and transmission of ideas.
Culture is a complex process of sharing and signification. Meanings are exchanged, adopted, and adapted through acts of communication. The tools we use – the photocopier, camera, computer, encourage, in fact insist upon the act of cutting, copying and pasting – it is second nature. Through mimicry and repetition we learn.
V&A presents Friday Late : Radio V&A
Friday 26th February, 6.30-10pm FREE
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/
Radio V&A broadcast live on Resonance – on 104.4FM and on DAB in central London.
Update: listen here:
The Sound of Silence by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Transmitting from speakers within the bookshelves of the National Art Library
The library encourages silence, yet it is full of words. The broadcast medium is similar – it is all around us yet we have to tune in to actually hear it.
The radio show fishes from the wide spectrum picked up when using a radio receiver, from outer space to our inner world.
There really is no such thing as silence. Only when we begin to be quiet do we really start to hear what is going on.
Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt, Mark Leahy, Will Montgomery
Wednesday 17th February 2016, 7 pm | Free entry
The Other Room 59 The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD.
www.otherroom.org
Update: and here is the video!
The Fundamental Questions is a collaborative work by Bennett and Weichbrodt and will be performed on the night by members of the audience.
https://peoplelikeus.org/2014/new-book-by-gregor-weichbrodt-vicki-bennett-available-now/
(please note: this is a reading by other people, the artists will not be present)
Now available for online viewing! The documentary about 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.
A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2015. 58 min. Produced by trapartfilm.com
Placed here for reference/viewing purposes only. If you would like to screen it contact jakob AT trapartfilm.com or carl AT trapartfilm.com
Download at UbuWeb
That’s right! On 23 December 2015 People Like Us will broadcast a 3-hour radio show, filling in for Station Manager Ken on WFMU. You can listen in live on the radio and internet from 9am-noon NY time, which is 2pm-5pm UK time. http://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
Live playlist will occur here http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64135
As part of Radio 3’s New Year New Music, Max Reinhardt is joined in the studio by the experimental musician and multimedia artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us whose audio collage work involves the manipulation and reworking of sampled material. Presented by Max Reinhardt – Vicki will be on around 11.30pm. Late Junction – BBC Radio 3
While we were staying with Matmos a couple of months ago we made this video for their new album “Ultimate Care II”. Here it is!
“Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five” is from Matmos album “Ultimate Care II,” out February 19 on Thrill Jockey Records.
CD/LP: http://thrilljockey.com/products/ulti…
Video by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) and Peter Knight:
https://peoplelikeus.org/2014/biography/
http://peterwknight.net/
Matmos website: http://vague-terrain.com/
Matmos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matmosband/
Thrill Jockey on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Tumblr: http://www.thrilljockey.tumblr.com
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/
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/