Negativland (with visuals by SUE-C)

Negativland (with visuals by SUE-C) come to Asheville for the first time ever in Spring of 2024, with a Special Muti-Venue Double-Feature!

Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual
artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance
about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and
technology that orchestrate our perceptions: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE.

On Monday May 20 the Grail Moviehouse will we be screening the amazing feature film "Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland" (from Director Ryan Worsley) with members of Negativland in person for the Q and A.
On Wednesday May 22, at the newly reopened Sly Grog, Negativland will perform their live show WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE, accompanied by SUE-C’s unique and immersive visuals. Opening acts are Sleep Number and Kima Moore

Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual
artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance
about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and
technology that orchestrate our perceptions: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE.

Negativland member Mark Hosler has lived in and near Asheville for over 20 years but this will be the first time the group has ever performed here.
Both events are co-presented by Asheville FM.

On Negativland:

“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

On "Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland" [Director: Ryan Worsley]:

“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

“Few artists have logged as many hours on the battlefield of fair use, let alone questioned as persistently the associated legal constraints around intellectual property, as Negativland, whose sonic, visual and performance appropriations and parodies have challenged eyeballs, eardrums and moral standards alike since the late 1970s.”
— THE WIRE

“40+ years of Negativland metamedia, recontextualized into popular feature length documentary entertainment format by Ryan Worsley. You’ve seen and heard it all! But you’ve never seen and heard it like this! ”
— BOING BOING

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