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14.05 -
The New Anxiety
The 300+ year technologies built to capture, understand and connect the world - from maps through geostationary satellites to contemporary algorithms and big data collection - have been exposed as weapons-grade systems that pluralise reality and destabilise the present. How does living in this new anxious world feel, and how deep do these systems take root?
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Live performance
Competition (2021), 20'
28th May, 20:00 BST
Touching and troubadour-ish, Newcastle-based Competition presents a brand new live set featuring unreleased material and music from 2019's 'Repetitive Music' (Slip).
Craig Pollard (aka Competition) is a quietly pivotal figure in Newcastle’s musical underground, curating events and operating across the city’s artist-led communities. As Competition, he makes (mild) pop music with a sampler and voice. The songs think about smallness and vulnerability, and build hooks from within their own limited means.
Filmed by Grace Denton.
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