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?
photography by Annie Feng
Jennifer Walshe
SELF-CARE (2017)
[INTERVAL]
Last Yearz Interesting Negro & Rowdy SS
Fury1 (2018-)
[INTERVAL]
Iceboy Violet
live set
performers:
Andreas Borregaard (Jennifer Walshe)
Last Yearz Interesting Negro
Rowdy SS
Iceboy Violet
Presentation on SELF-CARE by Andreas Borregaard
13th May, RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music (Lecture Theatre), 14:00
Coffee shop talk with Iceboy Violet
14th May, All Saints Park (Oxford Rd. entrance), 11:30
How can we make time to care for ourselves in this increasingly noisy, divided, and incessantly apocalyptic present day?
We begin with care at its most superficial. Jennifer Walshe's 'SELF-CARE' is a rip-roaring capitalist's wet-dream, a messy coagulation of yoga, self-help tapes and sequestered nature that revels in the fakery of packaged happiness. It shall be performed by premier Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard.
What follows it a total flipside. Artist/dancer Last Yearz Interesting Negro and sound/movement artist Rowdy SS present 'Fury1' - simultaneous, responsive practices of live sonic manipulation and dance which ask the audience to be present in the moment, questioning spectacle, intimacy and boundaries in performance.
To close, Iceboy Violet presents a live set of music harnessing the aggression of grime and noise music, redistributed for vital queer catharsis.