Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!

Doors 6:30pm / Event 7pm
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Mimesis Magazine — Film as Performance celebrates it's second issue centered around the concept of"spoiling," featuring contributions by Asher Hartman, Nina Sarnelle, Ryat Yezbick, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Tatum Howey, and Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja. The launch event will bring together some of the contributors for an evening of short film screenings, readings, performances and concurrent live spoilage. The magazine is edited by Neha Choksi, Elbe Trakal, and Lior Shamriz.

Mimesis is a platform for social and cultural analysis at the intersection of contemporary film practices as acts of performance and the performance of our everyday as fundamentally shaped by the cinematic and the moving image. We see film’s trans-temporal communication capacity as an opportunity to help decipher power structures within our sensorial worlds. Writing on film performance practices guides our learning process and the possibilities for resistance and subversion of those modes of power. We embrace the compulsion for the mimetic as a chance for mutation and failure.
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Carla Harryman / Jon Raskin: Scales for the Living Under Duress

Night 1 (May 9) | Night 2 (May 10)
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members

Scales for the Living under Duress: 2020-2025 arranges selections from Carla Harryman’s poem-dialogue trilogy written in “pandemic time” for voices and improvised music under the direction of Harryman and composer Jon Raskin. The multi-instrumental performance with speaking and singing voices features Ben Davis (cello and voice), Carla Harryman (speaking voice), Darren Johnston (trumpet, vocals), Jon Raskin (alto saxophone, concertina, electronics, and vocals), and Roham Sheikhani (movement and vocals).
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Carla Harryman / Jon Raskin: Scales for the Living Under Duress

Night 1 (May 9) | Night 2 (May 10)
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members

Scales for the Living under Duress: 2020-2025 arranges selections from Carla Harryman’s poem-dialogue trilogy written in “pandemic time” for voices and improvised music under the direction of Harryman and composer Jon Raskin. The multi-instrumental performance with speaking and singing voices features Ben Davis (cello and voice), Carla Harryman (speaking voice), Darren Johnston (trumpet, vocals), Jon Raskin (alto saxophone, concertina, electronics, and vocals), and Roham Sheikhani (movement and vocals).
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TJ Borden / Mari Kawamura: Morton Feldman's "Patterns in a Chromatic Field"

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm

American composer and John Cage associate Morton Feldman composed a number of large-scale, lengthy works toward the end of his life. Patterns in a Chromatic Field, his 1981 duo for cello and piano, is a relatively concise 80 minutes, but encapsulates the quietly intense minimalism of this late period. T.J. Borden and Mari Kawamura perform this work alongside earlier pieces Durations 2, Film Music for JP, and Intersection 3.
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