


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?


VIRTUALLYREALITY presents: Care
13th May 2019, Soup Kitchen, 19:30-22:00
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.