Bar Laika by e-flux

Satellite mix series 002: 51717 Available now on Soundcloud / link in bio 042820 is a hybrid DJ/live set recorded by 51717 at her home in Brooklyn, NY. 51717 is the intuitive language of New York-based artist Lili Schulder, a longtime fixture in the NYC D.I.Y. electronics scene. Releases on cult underground labels such as Jealous God, Total Black, and L.I.E.S. have served as tangible documentation of her exploration of themes and emotions handed down to her via an Orthodox J...ewish upbringing. 51717’s minimalist sound design is focused on the transmission and decay of overwhelming thematic elements into minor sonic forms. Her work touches on implicit musical tensions between noise and silence, language and sound, material and transcendencedichotomies that often form the binaristic conditions that are confronted and deconstructed within meditative and ritualistic practice. See more

pickup / delivery cocktails (and wine and sake) today, and a virtual screening night with Karrabing Film Collective. order and details at the link in bio

This week Bar Laika will begin a little experiment for our screening seriesthose of you who live near us in Brooklyn, Queens, and lower Manhattan can order drinks for pick up or home delivery and receive a link to a film and online Q&A with your order. We have cocktails, kits, sakes, wines, and liquors, with more to be added as we move forward. Let us know what you’d like! We’ll aim to do this every week we’re able, until we reopen. We’ll start this Thursday with a screening... of Day in the Life by Karrabing Film Collective, and a q&a with Elizabeth Povinelli. We’re excited to see you all! Link in bio for more information. Day in the Life explores the ordinary obstacles Indigenous families face as they move through an ordinary day. Across five chaptersBreakfast, Playtime, Lunch Break, Cocktail Hour, and Dinner Timeand a audioscape directed by its younger members, DIL is a visual and sonic landscape that dramatizes and satirizes the settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism that Karrabing members encounter over the course of a day. Karrabing Film Collective is an indigenous media group based in Australia’s Northern Territories that uses filmmaking and installation as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organization. @ Bar Laika by e-flux

we miss you! while we’re unable to host our usual events, we’re working on a few things to send your way.. today, the first in our Satellite mix series : Keith Fullerton Whitman, Acid Causality (60:19) pour yourself a drink and listen at the link in bio @satellitemusicseries @keithfullertonwhitman @sannaswedan

until tomorrow..

dear friends and neighbors: out of an abundance of caution Bar Laika will be closing beginning tonight, for two weeks, at which point we will reassess the situation. stay healthy and safe. yours, Laika... image: swordfish belly bacon, will be ready when we come back See more

TOMORROW: Thursday, March 12, 9pm / Bar Laika Presents: Camille Henrot, Spatial Film, 2007, 15:00 minutes The universe consists of an infinity of erratic micro-events. Each of them is more important than the large one.seen on the wall of Yona Friedman’s apartment Filmed in 16mm, Spatial Film is a wandering through the apartment and cosmology of ideas of the architect and utopist Yona Friedman. As a conversation develops between Henrot and Friedman on the topics of film, te...chnology, and the creative process, the point of view shifts to that of Friedman’s dog, Baltkis, the center of his emotional and conceptual world. Camille Henrot (b. 1978, France) lives and works in New York City. Her practice moves seamlessly between film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Henrot references self-help, online second-hand marketplaces, cultural anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, and social media to reconsider the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge. Henrot questions the consequences of the information age and how humans negotiate the articulation between the individual and global subjects, as well as intimate and broadly shared concerns. A 2013 fellowship at the Smithsonian resulted in the film Grosse Fatigue, for which she was awarded the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of the 2014 Nam June Paik Award and the 2015 Edvard Munch Award. In 2017, Henrot was given carte blanche at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where she presented the major exhibition Days Are Dogs. Henrot has participated in the Lyon, Berlin and Sydney Biennials and exhibited at Schinkel Pavillon, Kunsthalle Wien and the New Museum. In late 2019 Henrot exhibited at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and upcoming solo exhibitions include the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2020), Art Sonje, Seoul, South Korea (2020) and Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium (2021). Image: Camille Henrot, Spatial Film (still)

TOMORROW: Thursday, March 5, 9pm / Bar Laika presents: Harun Farocki, A New Product, 2012, 36:27 Scenes from meetings within a company which advises corporations how to design their offices -- and the work done there. The film shows that words are not just tools, they have become an object of speculation. Harun Farocki (19442014) was born in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. From 1966 to 1968 he attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). In addition to teach...ing posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich, and Stuttgart, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Farocki made close to 120 films, including feature films, essay films, and documentaries. He worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor, and producer. In 1976 he staged Heiner Müller's plays The Battle and Tractor together with Hanns Zischler in Basel, Switzerland. Farocki wrote for numerous publications, and from 1974 to 1984 he was editor and contributing author of the magazine Filmkritik (München). His work has been shown in many national and international exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums. See more

TOMORROW: Thursday, February 27, 9pm / Bar Laika presents: Joan Jonas, Upsidedown and Backwards In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear are told simultaneously, one backwards and one forwards, each interrupting the other. Jonas' ironic use of visual symbolism further inverts the structure and content of the fragmented fairy tale narratives, creating multiple, mirror-image reversals of the texts and their mean...ing. The inverted and mixed-up tales, which are intercut with Jonas' ritualistic performances, merge into a composition of transformation and sexuality that evokes the tangled subconscious of male and female desire. Jonas performs wearing a veiled doll face as she manipulates childlike objects or partners a skeleton in a danse macabre. Charged with the sublimated fears and fantasies of childhood, the tape's imagery mirrors the fairy tales in its fusion of innocence and horror, dream and nightmare. Image: Joan Jonas, Upsidedown and Backwards, 1980, 29:03 minutes

TOMORROW: Thursday, February 20, 9pm / Bar Laika presents: Satellite 14: Devoye and Neville Folkes, DJ set by Wah Gwan Twon Devoye Folkes is a New York-born and -raised DJ and producer. He is a resident DJ at Half Moon BK, and is the drummer of Dianna Lopez’s band. He has numerous self-released albums, many which consist of remixes and mash-ups of pop songs, such as his take on Solange’s popular song You Can Get It (Solange Bootleg). Being hyper conscious of the way in whi...ch music is manipulated and used by DJs, many of his solo releases are geared as DJ tools; you can hear them being played in clubs in NYC and beyond. Having grown up immersed in his father's productions, he has sampled and incorporated his vocals in many of his releases. Neville Folkes, also known as Raja Moore and Mr. Rajah, is a New York-based rapper and Reggae artist of Jamaican heritage. He started his career by making music with his brothers through live freestyling and DJing. After moving to New York in the early 90s, he signed two tracks on Weeded, a subsidiary label of Nervous Records. He is currently the frontman of Bronx-based Reggae band Rhythm Master Band. Devoye and Neville Folkes are currently working on an album together. Wah Gwan Twon (Antwon Montaque) is a New York-based DJ and producer. Drawing from his Jamaican heritage, his mixes include Caribbean remixes and edits of popular songs to mash up di dance. He is a resident DJ at Half Moon BK, Pianos, and Lovers Rock. Free entrance.

TOMORROW: Thursday, February 13, 9pm / Bar Laika presents: Lawrence Weiner’s moving-image works, introduced by Molly Nesbit Join Lawrence Weiner and Molly Nesbit for a special screening program of moving-image works made between 1972 and 2010, that extend Weiner's signature conceptual and language-based practice into cinematic and digital realms. To And Fro. Fro And To. And To And Fro. And Fro And To, 1972, 1:00 minute... Mortal Sin, 2000, 03:30 minutes Blue Moon Over, 2001, 05:14 minutes Deep Blue Sky, 2002, 06:35 minutes Inherent In The Rhumb Line, 2005, 07:25 minutes Turning Some Pages, 2007, 05:00 minutes Gyroscopically Speaking, 2010, 05:00 minutes See more

TOMORROW: Thursday, February 6, 9pm / e-flux video rental at Bar Laika presents: Manon de Boer, Sylvia Kristel - Paris, 2003, 39 minutes Between November 2000 and June 2002, Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of Sylvia Kristel. At each recording session de Boer asked Kristel to speak about a city where she has lived: Paris, Los Angeles, Brussels, or Amsterdam; over the two years she spoke on several occasions about the same city. At first glance, the collection o...f stories appears to make up a sort of biography, but over time it shows the impossibility of biography: the impossibility of plotting somebody's life as a coherent narrative. For the film Sylvia Kristel - Paris, Manon de Boer finally selected two monologues on Paris, recorded at an interval of one year. Kristel's stories wander through some of the key points in her life, fluidly forming and reforming the narrative elements. The city itself is rarely described directly. She speaks of her films, her love-affairs, and how these have influenced her life's trajectory. The cities are coordinates to which her memories move to, find themselves within, and move away from. This finds a parallel in the image. Sylvia Kristel - Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as an experimental documentary about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography.

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