A guided workshop on subverting tape loops into a physical practice of memory and release. Think about where your memories are stored.
You cannot delete yourself
This year’s What Is festival is a disruption: we’re testing noncompliance and are asking you to join us in practice. Or refuse: the only rule is that there are no rules.
- THE WORKSHOP at 6 PM: Experimenting with memory loops. Artist-facilitator Aliyah Aziz guides a WORKSHOP using tape loops as an exploration of what it means to take big tech out of our perceived experiences and re-engage with our senses. The taped loops will become a meditation on unravelling sounds, an artefact of our collective static through time, and an exercise of mutual transformation.
- THE ACTIVATION: Artist Cookie Brunel will launch a web art activation titled “Exodus Big Techius: Root to leaving Google/Apple/Microsoft for the Collective Open Source” as a way for community to consider ways to remove themselves from big tech.
This is a low capacity workshop, tickets buyers are encouraged to not wait.
- Participants are encouraged to bring their own recordings and a set of recordings will also be provided.
- The workshop ends in a collaborative, improvisatory jam as we create an irreproducible moment that alters the past and the future.
- Workshop participants are invited to perform as artists with Aliyah Aziz on Day 3 (Friday, May 8th).* Participants joining the performance Friday performance will have access to the full show.
- If participants needs extra support with hand mobility, as this is a physically detailed workshop, please reach out to sanjeet@musicgallery.org.
*By participating in the workshop, you are signing on as an artistic partner. You should ideally feel comfortable joining the performances.
NOTE: This is not a typical workshop and is not free to MG members. However, the usual membership discounts still apply.
ABOUT ALIYAH AZIZ
Aliyah Aziz is a multidisciplinary storyteller who uses light to talk about shadows, and sound to physically move them through us. She uses disruption as a tool of resistance, sculpting glitch and static to channel the friction that exists between the surface and the depth of the technology that we engage with. Using custom instruments to conduct the auditory frictions present in our technology, Aliyah harnesses electromagnetic frequencies as rhythmic noise in honor of the sonic ghosts that haunt our machines. She incorporates auditory statics like she is listening to an underlying pulse, a living extension of voice beyond body.
ABOUT COOKIE BRUNEL
Cookie Brunel is an artist and makerspace technician working with limitless materials and formats. They seek ways of being anti-capitalist in tech and digital artmaking, exploring movements such as de-growth, de-googling, permacomputing, and the right to repair. Cookie organizes and hosts the “Open Source Computer Club” with the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. This spring, they will be exhibiting art at the Open Hardware Summit in Berlin. They are also currently developing more free and in-person community events surrounding digital sovereignty and leaving “Big Tech”. Find Cookie if you are interested in attending!
TICKETING & ACCESSIBILITY INFO
REFUND, NO-SHOW, & RUSH LIST POLICY
Sometimes our shows sell out, and that can be a bummer for folks who didn’t get a ticket. We’ve developed a new ticketing policy that applies to advance ticket holders and those wanting tickets to ensure a fair, transparent process for releasing additional tickets to a sold-out show. Please read our full policy here.
TICKETING
Our new ticket type invites you to Pay What You Can Afford (PWYCA) which means that you can choose an appropriate level and where possible, help to offset community members attending at a discounted rate. Levels are decided by you based upon your income and financial flexibility and are not verified at the door.
ACCESSIBILITY INFO
Masking and social distancing is strongly recommended for attendees who are able to and audience members are encouraged to arrive scent-free to the performance.
For additional questions or accessibility needs, please contact: matthew@musicgallery.org.
COVID POLICY
We strongly encourage masking at all times. For our full policy, click here.
SAFER SPACE
We expect all attendees and community members to respect one another, and to respect the work that was created for you to explore. We will not tolerate harm or harmful behaviour of any kind. View our policy here.
