"Delegates from Turin – the land of chocolate liquor and autonomous spaces – interrogate the Microplex hivemind in a 2 day exchange of gonzo DIY culture. Inside: impressionistic films mapping the city’s rapidly disappearing squat culture, AV Jumblesail inna perverse trash media clash with circuit glitch hero Craxi Driver, Jabu’s Guest serenading you with her light-controlled organelle + more inexplicable Euro weirdness."
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A
gig
held at The Cube
on Friday 13th March. The event starts at 19:30.
Bottom up culture, as static on dust particles, accumulates invisibly beneath the sheet of conformity — releasing itself through collision and separation, in not fully predictable ways.
Music to Come, Arsider, Misto Mame, Siamo Solo Noise and the Cube Microplex present “Like Static in the Dust”: two days of screenings and live sound and music, mapping the connections between underground collectives practicing autonomy and cultural self-production, beyond the circuits of the mainstream.
...DAY 1 - Friday 13th March - from 7pm till late!
Day one is dedicated to screenings and live A/V, starting with an unreleased collage from collective video archives: the Turin squat movement from the late 90s until today — a kinetic survey of whimsical situationism, DIY camouflage, resistance and collision with the state of things, showcasing autonomy as a vital necessity...
- Clinamen: pirates against the great void -
a film by Osservatorio per l’Oblio Industriale
Not merely a documentary but a semiotic excavation into the cold, industrial heart of Turin in search of that "swerve”. Through a feverish montage of unreleased archives we dive in the sweat-drenched kineticism of the city’s squatters movement through the 90s and 2000s, as a radical dissent against the "contactless violence" of our era via the organic residue of the riot, the ritual, and the encounter. A tactical refusal to be mapped, the proof that not every history is written in ink, but carved into the very skin of the concrete.
- guest - performs with the Pattern Organ
An optical synthesiser of sound from patterns of light and dark creating ever-evolving and interactive audiovisual experience.
- Infinite Spirit Music -
fearless across concrete DJ set
Celebrated Bristol head Lionel Lamadon fearlessly quests along the boundaries of experimental music, from spoken word, sound poetry, concrete music to noise, industrial, electronica.
- Jumble Sail x Craxi Driver -
absurdists A/V manipulation meets retro-technologic video-acoustic sabotage
VHS, Video8, paper collage and circuit bent feedback mixers de-generate in an unstable glitch continuum with processed images birthed just to be suddenly destroyed. A tribute to limbic visual memories, flickering through the static of constantly degraded signals.
- Speed Archer -
non-verbal TV remix
Rolagsky processed films where the background noise volume of the body speaking is turned up: pauses, stutters and vocal ticks hidden in a world obscured by words, are the reactive tokens that make the stories become less specific and more universal.
- La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de L’Est -
a film by N.Drolc & G.Marietta
A shape-shifting, faceless, puny and paranoid organism, la Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de l'Est doesn't exist. In the early 2000s, a powerful flux of poisonous hermaphroditic cells was first spotted in the French cities of Metz and Strasbourg, before infecting large delimited areas of the western and eastern web. A bad taste joke, ephemeral in its core, rigorously immortal.
Food provided by chef Peter and Snoozie
Artwork by arcadepare
Entry requirements: 18+