People Like Us will perform The Mirror in Berlin at Kiezsalon on Wednesday, 27th March 2019 along Warp’s Kelly Moran. Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/digital-in-berlin-17478803114
The Mirror in Czech Republic
The Mirror will screen at AFO, which is held in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The goal of the film festival is to popularise science through documentary films, lectures and workshops of filmmakers, scientists and academics. 54th edition of the festival is scheduled on 23-28, April 2019. The Mirror will screen in the Archive & Film section.
The Mirror at Other Cinema, SF
The Mirror will be shown (theatrical format, i.e. not a performance) at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema in San Francisco on 6 April 2019.
The Mirror screening in Kentucky
Saturday 9 February 2019
Full event length: 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM EST | The Mirror screens approximately 8pm (check with them if you’re planning on going)
Columbia Theatre, 824 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY 40203, United States
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wxox-voix-de-ville-tickets-54715323004
As part of a larger program of performances, a theatrical screening (ie we won’t be there!) of THE MIRROR by People Like Us will take place at the grand Columbia Theatre at 824 S. Fourth Street in downtown Louisville for the Voix de Ville commemorating the 3rd Anniversary of WXOX 97.1 FM / ARTxFM! Enjoy food and libations from local vendors, and bid on selections from your favourite shows in the XOX themed Silent Auction. http://www.artxfm.com/
People Like Us and The Mirror on BBC Radio Hear and Now
On Saturday 19 January 2019 22:15 (UK) on BBC RADIO 3 Vicki will be guesting on Hear and Now, presented by Robert Worby. She will be talking about her work, then the show will air a recording of the full 35 minute People Like Us concert The Mirror, which was performed at London’s Cafe Oto in Summer 2018. Broadcast then archived for a few weeks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00022k6
https://peoplelikeus.org/Hear-and-Now-interview-PLU-19Jan2019.mp3
The Mirror Commissions
Our project The Mirror consists of an a/v performance (and sometimes stand alone movie), an album release, a film for improvisers, and 3 new artist commissions where they to respond to The Mirror with a new piece of work. All three artist responses by Dina Kelberman, Porest (Mark Gergis) and Hearty White are now available, so we’re putting them all together online here:
Reflects by Dina Kelberman (December 2018)
Media link: https://dinakelberman.com/reflects
Description: When I thought about the word “reflections” this is what my brain showed me. Something about reflects, reflex, reflection symmetry, shapes, walls, and now that i think about it it’s probably a lot to do with sitting in a tiny room full of corners all day every day. Also laptop symmetry. These might all just be portraits of my laptop.
Bio: Dina Kelberman is an interdisciplinary artist recently transplanted from Baltimore, MD to Los Angeles CA. Kelberman has created original web-based pieces for the New Museum and The Marina Abramovic Institute and has participated in numerous design and photography biennials. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Art21, NPR, Known and Strange Things (Cole, 2016) and most recently The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2018) and Olia Liliana’s “An Infinite Seance 3”. In 2018 she was invited to speak at the UbuWeb conference in Athens and the Post-Photography Prototyping Biennial in London. She is currently ranked 5th in the world for Most Lines in Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Hearty White Reflects Upon The Mirror
We’re pleased to release the last our 3 artist commissions made in response to The Mirror.
The first was by Dina Kelberman, the second was a 50-minute new audio piece by Porest (Mark Gergis) and now we’re presenting a brand new 50-minute audio work by HEARTY WHITE. You can listen here and download at bandcamp.
https://peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com/track/the-mirror-2
(Please note, this is a piece of audio by Hearty White, and the link embed above lists it as People Like Us purely because it’s on our bandcamp page)
Bio: Hearty White lives and doesn’t work in Lexington, KY, birthplace of Richard Hell. His radio non-career spans decades. He loves you in theory. Listen to Hearty White’s WFMU radio show:
wfmu.org/playlists/HA
More info on The Mirror by People Like Us and these artist commissions:
peoplelikeus.org/2018/the-mirror-a-new-live-a-v-performance-by-people-like-us/
POREST Reflects Upon The Mirror
Above is the trailer for the second of our 3 artist commissions made in response to The Mirror. The first was by Dina Kelberman, and now we’re presenting you this 50-minute new audio piece by POREST (Mark Gergis).
Available January 7, 2019 (free download)
https://porest.bandcamp.com/album/abject-mirror-2
POREST • ABJECT MIRROR
Porest is dragged through an inconvenient network of paranormal subterfuge after exposing something significant that may have happened 33 days from now.
Audio-drama with advertisements and musical accompaniment.
Porest, etc: Mark Gergis
Dr. Lumen / Mr. Fleckt, etc: Jake Rodriguez
Acoustic guitar on THROUGH YOU: Robert Millis
Recorded and produced by Porest until 2019
Thank you: Vicki Bennett
Published by Porestsound – 2019
(Porestsound 010-DI)
Dina Kelberman: Reflects
In Spring 2018 we completed creation of and started touring the a/v performance The Mirror, which in Autumn 2018 was accompanied by the release of an OST of the same name. Now it’s time to start publishing three artist commissions we have made in relation to this. The first work is an a/v piece by Dina Kelberman. The title is “Reflects”.
Click on the Media Link to view the work and please enable pop-ups and turn your device sound on since they form an essential part of the piece.
The other two artists (Porest & Hearty White) new works will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Title: Reflects
Description: When I thought about the word “reflections” this is what my brain showed me. Something about reflects, reflex, reflection symmetry, shapes, walls, and now that i think about it it’s probably a lot to do with sitting in a tiny room full of corners all day every day. Also laptop symmetry. These might all just be portraits of my laptop.
Bio: Dina Kelberman is an interdisciplinary artist recently transplanted from Baltimore, MD to Los Angeles CA. Kelberman has created original web-based pieces for the New Museum and The Marina Abramovic Institute and has participated in numerous design and photography biennials. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Art21, NPR, Known and Strange Things (Cole, 2016) and most recently The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2018) and Olia Liliana’s “An Infinite Seance 3”. In 2018 she was invited to speak at the UbuWeb conference in Athens and the Post-Photography Prototyping Biennial in London. She is currently ranked 5th in the world for Most Lines in Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Media link: https://dinakelberman.com/reflects
The Mirror, PLU Doc + Q&A in Oslo
People Like Us will perform The Mirror at Kunstnernes hus on Saturday 10 November 2018. It will be followed by a Q&A with Rob Young and then a screening of Nothing Can Turn Into A Void.
Tickets Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, NO-0167 Oslo
19.00-19.40: Live performance: The Mirror
19.45-20.15: Q&A with Rob Young, from The Wire
2015-2045: PAUSE
20.45-21.45: Documentary: Nothing Can Turn Into A Void- An Art Apart: People Like Us. By Carl Abrahamsson
The Mirror at Brighton Film Festival
The Mirror will be performed at Brighton Film Festival (Cinecity) on 15 November 2018 at Fabrica.
FABRICA, 40 Duke St, BRIGHTON BN1 1AG 7pm (start 7.30pm)
Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-like-us-the-mirror-live-score-event-tickets-51463350266
The Mirror at Spill Festival, Ipswich
FRIDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2018
The Mirror at 7pm and 8pm (two performances of The Mirror)
Ipswich Film Theatre
Tickets: https://spillfestival.com/show/the-mirror/
People Like Us will perform The Mirror TWICE in a double bill with Chris & Cosey at Spill Festival, Ipswich, Suffolk.
