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Pleased to say we have another performance lined up (in person again!) of The Mirror, our first in a couple of years since it had to default to screenings recently.
It will be on at Index Festival 2022, in Braga, Portugal on 21 May 2022. The venue will be GNRation. More info coming up on the above website.
On 7 May 2022 on Film Close-Ups on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley, 5:30pm-6:30pm (California time), People Like Us is in conversation with Gregory Scharpen about Gone, Gone Beyond, which begins a few weeks of screening at Gray Area in San Francisco in May. https://www.kalx.berkeley.edu/
May 25 2022 – 6:30 PM, Gray Area, San Francisco | Get Tickets
6:30PM Doors open | 7:00PM Presentation by Vicki Bennett | 8:00PM Screening of Gone, Gone Beyond
Proof of vaccination is required for all attendees over the age of 12 years old. Read more.
Using collage as a compositional tool opens up endless opportunities to experience results that are more than the sum of the parts, opening doors (and windows) to let light in from outside of our own limited and sometimes repetitive ways of thinking. Since 2016 Vicki Bennett has been creating “Gone, Gone Beyond” for RML CineChamber, an immersive 360 surround cinema environment, is now an hour long.
In this presentation Vicki tells us about her creative process, expanding her aesthetics from 2D to 3D to create audiovisual content which breaks the rectangle, smashing the thin screen into tiny fragments, looking beyond the frame, climbing through to see what’s behind.
This special screening is part of a limited run showing of Gone, Gone Beyond, an immersive audio-visual spatial cinema work by People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett). This is Gone, Gone, Beyond‘s US premiere, following its European debut tour last fall with screenings at nyMusikk in Oslo, the Barbican in London, and more. See showtimes
We’re very pleased to let you know that we’ll be returning to perform at Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Friday 3 June 2022
10:00PM at THEMUSEUM, 10 King Street West, Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3
All info you need is here: https://openears.ca/
We are very pleased to announce that Gone, Gone Beyond will be screening in it’s home town San Francisco in May 2022 at Gray Area. We say it’s the “home town” because although we live in London, the piece was originally commissioned by Recombinant Media Labs for CineChamber, the structure which we then built a replica of in 2021 and have existing in the UK.
TICKETS: https://grayarea.org/gonegonebeyond/
All press inquiries should go to Gray Area, and if you have questions for People Like Us or Gone, Gone Beyond you can directly ask us.
Gone, Gone Beyond will screen at 6.30pm and 8.30pm each night.
On the 25th there will be an artist talk followed by one screening – tickets can be bought combined or separately: https://grayarea.org/event/vicki-bennett/
SCREENING DATES:
12, 13, 14, 19, 20 & 21 May 2022 (two screenings per night)
—- these screenings will be introduced by Naut Humon, original commissioner of Gone, Gone Beyond and creator of the CineChamber that houses our work.
25, 26 & 27 May 2022 (two screenings per night)
—- we will be present for these screenings and therefore will introduce the the 26th/27th, and it will be an artist presentation on the 25th.
All screenings are at Gray Area, Grand Theater, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 | info@grayarea.org | 415.843.1423
Covid policy: Full vaccination (no booster) | Masks strongly encouraged but not required
A theatrical screening of The Mirror by People Like Us will be part of Cover Versions, a group exhibition in Sunderland, UK:
A Group Exhibition Curated by Anthony & Graham Dolphin
4 April – 1 May 2022
Abject Gallery, 27 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, SR1 1RE, UK
Preview: 1 April 18:00–22:00
Opening times: Wednesday – Saturday 11:00–16:00
OVER THE EDGE : “WWW Radio” broadcasting on KPFA
People Like Us & Negativland on KWCW
(with a prelude in the radio show featuring special guest Blevin Blectum)
17 March 2022 | KPFA.ORG | MIDNIGHT-3AM (PT)
A week long residency at Whitman College’s Sheehan Gallery brought Vicki and Negativland & Sue-C to Walla Walla, Washington. It all ended with college radio: a two and half hour long chartsweeping riot broadcasted live from the studios of KWCW containing Vicki, Mark, Wobbly and eventually, one receptacle guest calling in to sing. 98% of that broadcast you’ll hear on Over The Edge tonight, largely as it happened.
People Like Us have just created the official video for a brand new remix by DJ Food of The The‘s Global Eyes, which was performed live at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018.
You can purchase The Comeback Special in various media formats on The The’s website.
In the past, Vicki has created the video for We Can’t Stop What’s Coming (2017) as well as providing the video backdrop for the The The Comeback Special Tour (2018).
Strictly Kev and his DJ Food Project have been with the record label, Ninja Tune, for over 25 years. He has DJed the world over and mixed hundreds of hours of radio using his 30+ years of experience and vast record collection. His 2012 album, The Search Engine, featured Matt Johnson covering ‘GIANT’ from Soul Mining and he opened for the band during some of The Comeback Special tour in 2018.
Our Hallwalls commissioned movie Fourth Wall is in the 35. Stuttgarter Filmwinter International Short Films Competition.
#Fourth Wall# is a new site specific wide screen movie and reflects upon the illusion of separateness. The title addresses the experience of illusory duality constructed by the mind, which is replicated through the lens of the camera, the stage, and the surface of the page, movie or computer screen. Through the viewing, cutting and editing of hundreds of pre-existing movies, Vicki searches for multiple and parallel narratives and collages these together to create a flowing stream of consciousness, attempting to breakdown this wall and reveal what she perceives as a greater reality and oneness beyond relativity.
Very nice feature/interview about Gone, Gone Beyond in Clot Magazine:
Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, USA | 1 February – 8 April 2022
Free and open to the public, located in Olin Hall on Whitman College campus.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-5 PM, Saturday-Sunday 12-4 PM, or by appointment. whitman.edu/sheehan
This solo exhibition of Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) follows a 30 year journey into immersive media, covering music, radio, text-based art and moving image. Showcasing hundreds of hours of audiovisual collage, both solo and with collaborators. To coincide with the exhibition is a visit from the artist with a series of screenings, artist presentations and radio collaborations in March 2022 on site.
Thursday 3 March 2022
Film Screening of Nothing Can Turn into a Void with Q & A
Kimball Auditorium | 5.30 PM (note the change of time)
Friday 4 March 2022
Performance by Negativland + Sue-C | Theatrical Film Screening of The Mirror by People Like Us | + support
Young Ballroom | 7 PM
Saturday 5 March 2022
People Like Us & Negativland on the Radio (on the air, no public audience)
KWCW 90.5 | 8 – 10:30 PM Listen Live
