Clapham Common Bandstand
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Towards Common Ground brings together performance, open-air lectures, documentaries and moving-image works in the public space of Clapham Common Bandstand.
Alice Tatge, Catherine Long, Caroline Smith, Emma Leach & Siân Robinson Davies, Freee, Lucy Reynolds, Joey Ryken, Prof. John Hutnyk, Jordan McKenzie and The Precarious Workers Brigade & Enemies of Good Artwill take to the bandstand to scrutinize strikes, protest and the politicalisation of public space.
in conjunction with the studioSTRIKE | Bread & Roses Film Festival, supported by BFI & Film London Community Pilot Fund and with thanks to Contemporary Films. FREE Admission, see www.studiostrike.com/
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Chronotopic Invocation 1:
Profane Articulations of the Autosarcophagic Orchestra (BZZHHHHJT!!!)
On Sunday, 6th of May, at 8pm, a site of ritualized karaoke duets will inhabit the bandstand at Clapham Common in South London. Transmuting the cultural distinctions betwixt and between sites of protest, occult ritual, and performative art practice, the context of karaoke will be used as a vehicle to form experimental models of collectivistic equinimity. Participants will be invited to deliver songs and addresses ranging from political speeches, anthemic ballads, to attempts at abstract vocalisations via teleprompt. The work formulates a futurological psychometrics, eradicating subjective perception of space-time in order to propose new territories of the social, answering (speculatively) whether or not methodologies of disorientation can function in the service of radical knowledge production.
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