HUSH! CAUTION! ECHOLAND!
HUSH! CAUTION! ECHOLAND!
Howard Slater and Kuda.org will present readings from Anti-Wall as an inverted lecture. Moving away from the typical means of presenting a text these readings, informed by the premise of a surrealist sleeping fit, will figure as fragments of a dream narrative, as enigmatic messages from an unconscious opened to the outside. Was much surrealist writing indebted to the flow of the dream state? Was it the purveying of incongruous images that, as acceptable lyrical forms, stemmed the contagion of the unsaid? From within
a somnambulant decor will we be able to hear the last gasp of mad love as a timeless confessional? What smooth functioning of thought can therefrom be disrupted?
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Performance HUSH! CAUTION! ECHOLAND!
8 Feb 2025
production by Howard Slater and kuda.org
Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade:
Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism
19 Oct2024 – 24 Feb 2025
The exhibition 'Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade introduces both local and international audiences to the breadth of our surrealist production, emphasizing its interplay with global surrealist movements and its significance for 20th and 21st century art.
https://msub.org.rs/exhibition/aktivitet-100-years-of-surrealism/?lang=en
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Howard Slater (b.1965). Self-taught writer and independent scholar working in the field of cultural politics, poetry and music with an especial interest in International Surrealism. Writings have appeared in Mute, Variant, Resonance, Working Press, Inventory and more recently on websites: Ill Will Editions, Datacide, Northern Review of Books. Lectures, performances and workshops have taken place at the Danish Art Academy’s School of Walls & Space, Arika, Kill Your Timid Notion and Kuda.org. An affiliate of the Copenhagen Free University from 2001-2004 and a founder member of the Mayday Rooms archive project.
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Art org _kuda.org, founded in 2001 in Novi Sad/Serbia, is focused on experimental and critical arts. Through a dynamic inter-disciplinary and trans-artistic program of workshops, art residencies, performances, and sound experiments, kuda.org addresses social issues and catalyses education, growth and transformation for artistic expression, for the local community and the wider public. The kuda.org collective carries out its activity in various formats through exhibitions, symposia, performances and public actions, often independently or in co-production with other artists and art associations.
The kuda.org collective has realized and presented its activities in the US, Europe, and the region in collaboration with a wide range of institutions, from museums of contemporary art, galleries, cultural centers, as well as art groups, informal organizations and schools.
www.kuda.org