Promo goes here
SOUND PROGRAM CURATED BY LAWRENCE ENGLISH
Across three weekends, BIG CITY LIGHTS* plays host to a gathering of exploratory musicians and sound provocateurs who create work operating at the very edges of the familiar. Devolved pop, dark-wave groove, ecstatic noise, pulsating bass and crushing harmony are the hallmarks of these artists. They push at the very forms of sound and structures of songwriting to uncover new ways of creation and connection. This is a music of rapture and elation, affect and pure sensorial overload. Sound program curated by Lawrence English.
Lawrence English is an artist composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field agency and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral live performance and site-specific installation to create work that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening place and embodiment. Over the past decade he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience and is determined to share his interests in the transformative and sensorial transgressive possibilities of sound. He is a Sidney Myer Creative fellow was awarded an outstanding doctorial thesis award in conjunction with his PhD in 2017 and has been supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for his public artwork project in Los Angeles Seirá. In 2022 he has been appointed the Annual Honouree by the Institute Of Modern Art.
| PHOTO | Jorge Serra @mingua.co |
Mr PP's Laneway & RooftopSouthport CBD QLD 4215
| Friday 21 Jun | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Friday 28 Jun | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Friday 05 Jul | 5PM – 9:30PM |
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Yugambeh Language Region and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People of the Gold Coast.
We recognise their continuing connection and contributions to country and culture.
We pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
