NEGATIVLAND + SUE- C: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE.

WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE: Negativland + SUE-C come to Brattleboro in the Spring of 2024 with a Special LIVE Double-Feature! Opening Support by Valley Solar, the "Psychedelic Focus Group" Featuring Members of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Doors Open: 7:30pm, Performances: Begin 8pm.

 To Celebrate we are offering a free virtual screening of STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A Documentary About Negativland by Ryan Worsley available to watch streaming for free on our website from Friday, May 10th until Friday, May 31st. 

NEGATIVLAND

Since 1980, the multimedia collective known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arrange these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and "culture-jamming" (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. Their art and media interventions pose both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, ownership, propaganda, power, and perception in the United States of America. Their work is now referenced and taught in many college courses in the US, has been written about and cited in over 150 books and legal journals, and they sometimes lecture about their work in the USA and in Europe.

SUE-C

Sue Slagle (SUE-C) is an award-winning artist, engineer and educator whose work in “real time cinema” presents a new, imaginative perspective on live performance. Her evolution as a new media artist began in late-90s San Francisco where she was an influential member of the electronic music scene, owning the experimental record label Orthlorng Musork, organizing audio-visual cultural events and teaching the first creative coding classes in Max Software. After finishing her masters degree in engineering at UC Berkeley she moved to Oakland where she became co-owner of the Ego Park gallery and helped launch the First Friday art walks.

Her performances blend cinema and technology into an organic, improvisational and immersive act, created from live cameras, light pads and video algorithms. She has always pushed the boundaries of human-computer interaction, employing emerging

technologies and inventing many of her own, both through performance and tinkering with hundreds of students in her well established teaching practice. She is currently a Video Designer at Meow Wolf.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM:

“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 have made a rewarding career out of being prodigious consumers of media who then digest it and recontextualize it, emphasizing mediated reality's crazy-making absurdity and the infinite malleability of perception and ‘truth.’” 

- Dave Segal, The Stranger

"Negativland are proud subverters of culture, causing trouble while having fun."- NPR Tiny Desk Concert