Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon
Now available on DVD. Be ready to turn your monitor or laptop on its side…
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Jordan Baseman – Dark Is The Night
UK based film artist Jordan Baseman is making new work in and around Soho interviewing inhabitants who range from the notorious to the anonymous, including hedonists and faded actors. The interview process is at the heart of Baseman’s work. He heavily edits this recorded material, juxtaposing the finished interviews with film footage taken in and around Soho, to construct narratives that mimic and yet subvert the traditional documentary film format. The end product will be a series of films that are at once semi-narrative, poetic and revealing. The works will create a portrait of a place that is both constant and fleeting.
More information, including a free coach trip from London to the preview and Jordan Baseman in conversation with Peter Bonnell on the Artsway website.
21st February – 5th April 2009
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Preview and Reception for the Artist: Saturday 21st February 2009 at 2pm
A: Artsway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, SO41 6BA
T: +44 (0) 1590 682260
W: www.artsway.org.uk
E: mail@artsway.org.uk
Obama’s Inauguration – Former Black Presidents
Richard Pryor shows how farcical the idea of a black president seemed in the 1970s. Eddie Murphy seems to think that it’s a bit closer in 1983 – at least if enough white folks get drunk before voting – but hopes he’s nimble if he does win. More than 20 years later, Dave Chappelle still shares his fears and suggests a Mexican vice president as insurance. James Earl Jones has to deal with becoming The Man in 1972 (”It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they do to him now won’t be an accident.”) Finally, Obama’s refreshingly honest and thoughtful speech about race in the USA during the election campaign. (This is a YouTube playlist. If you want to see a list of the videos, click the icon next to the play button at the bottom left.)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCE00CBABA0758D0There’s also a 1964 clip from the BBC where Martin Luther King predicts a black president in less than 25 years. Only a few years late…
The psychoacoustics of modern conflict
A minimalistic improvisation by Lebanese trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj ’duetting’ with the Israeli Air Force as it bombards Mazen’s home city of Beirut. Recorded by Kerbaj on the balcony of his flat in Beirut on the night of 15/16 July 2006. Silence, space, explosion, boredom, scuffling – the psychoacoustics of modern conflict (it’s very quiet – turn your volume up).
From muniak.com via Mudd Up!, the old version of the DJ Rupture blog
Image from flickr.com / mazenkerblog.blogspot.com
In Ancient Dramas, Vital Words For Today’s Warriors
For as long as there have been wars, there have been warriors who survive — and yet become as much casualties of battle as those who died.
In fact, some think that the Greek playwright Sophocles was writing, in military dramas like Ajax and Philoctetes, about what today we call post-traumatic stress disorder — and that his plays were performed by veterans, for veterans, in part to help them heal.
Now Sophocles is finding a military audience once again. The venue? A Marriott hotel ballroom, where 300 uniformed men and women sit watching, box lunches on their laps…
