Doors 7pm (starts 7.30pm)
Admission £5 / £3 concessions
An evening celebrating John Ashbery with readings of poems and letters; recollections of John Ashbery - the poet and the person, film and soundscapes.
Contributors include Jeremy Reed and Ginger Light, Mark Ford, Patricia Hope Scanlan, Robert Hampson, Anthony Howell, Anthony Rudolf, Daniel Kane, Olivier Brossard, Hope & Benedict Wishart, MacGillivray and Others . . .
What remains in the body after COVID-era anti-Asian racism? A multidisciplinary event exploring how anti-Asian hate during COVID registered in the body and how it might be released together with live performances from Ming Chin Hsieh and Angela Wai Nok Hui
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Buddies (1985), directed by Arthur Bressan Jr., was the first narrative film made about AIDS. Alongside Buddies, Bressan is known for the documentary Gay USA and a number of pornographic films. The screening will be proceeded by a selection of shorts directed by the video artist and AIDS activist Tom Rubnitz.
His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Black is… Black Ain’t (1995) is the final film of director Marlon Riggs. His camera traverses the country, bringing us face to face with Black folks young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban, gay and straight, grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contested definitions of Blackness. Hooked up to an IV in his hospital bed, Riggs takes strength for his struggle against AIDS from the continual resilience of the African Americans in the face of overwhelming oppression. The screening is proceeded by a selection of shorts by video artist Tom Rubnitz.
