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Tours Live Events - Free Entry! Every Sunday at 2pm Friday 25 August at 10pm ENG Thursday 24 August at 6pm with Mark Beasley Performance Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death) Sunday 27 August at 1pm for Families Saturday 26 August at 2pm Talk by Mark Beasley: O Superman to Girls, Tricky O Superman To Girls, Tricky.

Saturday 26 August at 8pm I Am Here, Where Are You: Performance Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance, Angel Blood) On Vocal Performance & Stephen O´Malley ( O))), KTL)

Reading Rasheedah Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) Laurie Anderson, Black Quantum Futurism, Lizzi Bougatsos, Nicholas Bullen, Performance Moor Mother Jem Cohen, Attila Csihar, Ian MacKaye, Steve McQueen & Tricky, Moor Mother, Stephen O´Malley, Tony Oursler, The Poetics (Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler)

Saturday 9 September at 2pm Organised by Mark Beasley Talk by Nicholas Bullen: Into the Black Hole 25 august – 15 october

Friday 15 September at 9pm Concert Attila Csihar (Mayhem)

O Superman… presents a series of seminal vocal per- Moor Mother and her collaborative project Black Quan- formances, artists, and audio/visual artworks, installed tum Futurism. Jem Cohen and Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, and enacted across all of the Kunsthall galleries and as Minor Threat) document the beginning of the D.C. part of a live programme in Landmark. hardcore scene and Minor Threat’s uncompromising The voice as a material and concrete form can be and direct approach to lyric and vocals, the avant-ex- bent or broken, much like clay, paint or steel, it is this perimental music of The Poetics (Tony Oursler and Mike materialness that when utilized in performance pro- Kelley) is also included, alongside Oursler’s own pro- duces powerful and often disturbing affect. The voice ject, “Synasthesia”: a series of interviews he conducted in performance and as a material moves fluidly, oc- with key artists and musicians including Alan Vega, cupying the spaces between existing structure and the Genesis P. Orridge, Arto Lindsay and Laurie Anderson. architectures of bounded genre. It is the active agent All of the selected artists radically rearticulate vocal that connects theater, music, and even dance; in short, performance, making the familiar productively strange voice overflows category, it is a binding material and a through the use of both emergent technologies and shuttling intensity that passes from body-to-body, from historic form, from the classical avant-garde to popular speaker to listener. music. Their works speak directly to their times and the Beginning with Laurie Anderson’s influential vocoded prevailing social and political climates, not through pal- pop video/performance piece O Superman (1981), the liative ornamental use of the voice, but rather through exhibition goes on to present the fledgling grindcore direct and urgent address. and death growl of Birmingham’s Napalm Death — as Presented as a walkthrough score for voice, O Super- well as the current music and film work of founder man… has been arranged by US based curator and member and vocalist Nicholas Bullen; Lizzi Bougatsos’ writer Mark Beasley especially for the spaces of Bergen (Gang Gang Dance, Angel Blood) meditative and ritual Kunsthall. Featuring live performance, archival material, use of the voice in her contemporary performance and audio installation, video and sonic essay, this exhibition- installation work; Tricky’s ecstatic hip hop vocalizing, as as-composition traces a partial history of radical and immortalized by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen; politicized avant-garde pre and post-punk vocals, from and the Afrofuturist music and poetry of Philadelphia’s the Eighties to now. Exhibition Map, «TRIAGE»: Master Exhibition 2017

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NO.5 GALLERY III GALLERY II GALLERY I 1 Steve McQueen 1 Nicholas Bullen 1 Laurie Anderson 1 Lizzi Bougatsos 6 Moor Mother Girls, Tricky, 2001 I Am Here, Where Are You, 2016 O Superman, 1981 Meditational Flow Break Up The Motionless Present, 2017 Colour video, sound, 14 minutes 47 seconds. Sound and video installation. 7 minutes 18 seconds Colour video, sound, 8 minutes 26 seconds (Energy Chance Revisited), 2017 Mixed media sound installation Courtesy of the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery Mixed media sound installation 2 Nicholas Bullen 2 Moor Mother 7 Black Quantum Futurism GALLERY IV Manifest Intent - Selections from the Fetish Bones, 2017 2 Tony Oursler (Rasheedah Phillips & Moor Mother) 1 Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Films archive collection of Nicholas Bullen Video by Bob Sweeney, 1 minute 6 seconds Synesthesia: Alan Vega, 1997-2001 Untitled, 2017 Untitled (Ian MacKaye interview, basement, Colour video, sound, 55 minutes 40 seconds. Colour video, sound, 9 minutes 30 seconds Dischord House), 2017 Colour video, sound, 8 minutes 41 seconds 3 Tony Oursler 8 The Poetics Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge, 1997-2001 (Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler) Colour video, sound, 90 minutes 29 seconds. Lapsed C, 1993 / 2017 Colour video projected on phosphorescent screen. 4 Tony Oursler 20 minutes 57 seconds. Synesthesia: Laurie Anderson, 1997-2001 Phosphorescent wallpaintings. Colour video, sound, 47 minutes 07 seconds. LANDMARK 5 Tony Oursler The Poetics Synesthesia: Arto Lindsay, 1997-2001 Poetics Vocal Emphasis (Mix), 2017 Colour video, sound, 51 minutes 20 seconds Sound. Played on request.