Esther Shaw and J.R. Robinson of Wrekmeister Harmonies have a new piece called "Oscar Screams" for
Pope.L's "Cage Unrequited" at the MCA. Mark Solotroff and Billie Howard
will be doing a reading on Sunday November 21st, at exactly 3:18 PM.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1658767217728180/
This event is FREE to the public.
"Cage
Unrequited" is a 25-hour marathon reading of experimental composer John
Cage’s influential book "Silence: Lectures and Writings" (1961)
organized by visual artist Pope.L. The performance reimagines the book
for contemporary audiences by filtering a bit of the past through the
voices and attitudes of a diverse community of more than 100 invited
readers from Chicago.
This program is presented in association with the exhibition "The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now."
"Cage Unrequited" was originally commissioned and premiered as part of
"Three Duets, Seven Variations," a special series of performances
organized by Adrienne Edwards, Performa, and Thomas J. Lax, The Studio
Museum in Harlem, during the Performa 13 biennial for the New York
presentation of "Radical Presence: Black Performance" in Contemporary
Art at The Studio Museum in Harlem and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. Radical
Presence is curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator,
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
For more information visit http://www2.mcachicago.org/event/mca-live-pope-l-cage-unrequited/
https://www.facebook.com/events/398987960294588/
Saturday November 21
The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Empty Bottle Presents is excited to announce the debut Chicago screening of Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay - Music Documentary, the first film to trace the origins of industrial music. The screening will be held at The Logan Theatre
in Logan Square and Mark Solotroff will DJ at the reception in the bar area, before
and after the event. Doors open at Logan Theatre at 6pm and the
screening will start at 7pm sharp.
FILM INFO
Industrial
Soundtrack For The Urban Decay is the first film to trace the origins of
industrial music, taking you on a journey through the crumbling
industrial cities of Europe to America’s thriving avant-garde scene.
Industrial music emerged in the mid 70’s, providing a vibrant, provocative and artistic
soundtrack to the picket lines, economic decline and cultural
oppression of the era. Whether factory workers, students or unemployed,
industrial music pioneers were all educated, artistically minded and
politically aware artists who started with little to no musical
background and went on to change musical history.
Industrial
musicians found inspiration in Krautrock bands Kraftwerk, Faust and Can,
20th century art movements Dada, Futurism and Surrealism and
post-modern writers William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and J.G. Ballard.
combining the do-it-yourself attitude of punk with mail art and
underground fanzines, these pioneers were also among the first bands to
incorporate tape loops, homemade synthesisers, factory field recordings
and cut-up techniques in their music.
Discover the personal
story of industrial music founders Throbbing Gristle, Sheffield’s
prolific Dada inspired band Cabaret Voltaire, award-winning soundtrack
composer Graeme Revell of SPK, noise music inventor Boyd Rice of NON and
fifteen other of the genre’s most influential figures, exposing their
incredible stories for the first time on film.
7pm // $15 // All Ages
