Mills Folly Microcinema, Auricle New Music Series, and MMoCA Cinema present a live performance by Negativland and SUE-C, We Can Really Feel Like We're Here plus a screening of Stand by for Failure: A Documentary about Negativland on Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7:00pm at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State Street. Tickets are $20 online, or $25 at the door. Advance tickets will be available online at https://negativland.bpt.me/ starting Friday, August 23, 2024 at 9:00am.
Were you at the Negativland show at Club de Wash in 1992? Then you know you won't want to miss them in 2024! Even if you're just discovering the wonders of Negativland, here's a chance to see a documentary about their collective mash-up endeavors over the past 40 years, followed by a live multi-media performance.
The evening will begin with a screening of Stand by for Failure: A Documentary about Negativland directed by Ryan Worsley (2023, 99 minutes) and a Q&A with Negativland. In 1978 David "The Weatherman" Wills, Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia world without boundaries, ownership or privacy. Negativland's complex chaos of plunderphonics poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the global village. Negativland continue to be pioneers of art in the electric age, and the medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.
“If you want to be inspired by individuals who dare to bust down the doors of art’s gatekeepers, then Stand By For Failure is the way to go.” —Film Threat
After the film, experience a live stage performance by Negativland and SUE-C, We Can Really Feel Like We're Here, their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions as we head into our next election. Negativland will perform in the MMoCA auditoirum with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually.
“An urgent show by Negativland and artist SUE-C calls time on a tech dystopia that is as malevolent as it is stupid… to meet the terrifying contemporary moment… as the world slides incrementally into meltdown.” –The Wire Magazine
“Negativland are proud subverters of culture, causing trouble while having fun.” –NPR Tiny Desk Concert
