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Interstices: Terre Thaemlitz & Lorel Easterbrooks

  • The Lab 2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 94103 (map)

Co-hosted with Pied-à-terre
Sunday, November 14, 2021; 6–8:30pm
FREE, RSVP HERE

Interstices
Text, audio, and video by Terre Thaemlitz
Digital video, 18 min., 2001
With conceptual emphasis on sonic peripheries and moments between dominant melodic contents – as well as their construction of new words and discourses – INTERSTICES fosters a symbolic relation to non-essentialist identity politics including queer pansexuality and transgenderism. Read more here.


Citations Without Music   
Text and video by Lorel Easterbrooks
Reading and audio recording by Ciarán Finlayson
Editing (text) by Ciarán Finlayson and Jules Joanne Gleeson
Audio mix and mastering by Eli Neuman-Hammond
Typography by Alec Mapes-Frances
Thanks to Terre Thaemlitz and Comatonse Recordings
Digital video, 31.5 mins, 2021
Citations Without Music (2021) is a video adapted from an essay on Terre Thaemlitz's Interstices (2001).
 

[15 min break]

Deproduction
Text, audio, and video by Terre Thaemlitz
Digital video, 86 min., December 28, 2017
In Deproduction, Terre Thaemlitz investigates the awkward, uncomfortable, and hypocritical power dynamics behind Western Humanist notions of family, and how they function internationally through processes of globalization. Read more here.


Terre Thaemlitz (1968) is an award-winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Her work combines a critical look at identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing analysis of the socioeconomics of commercial media production. He has released over 15 solo albums, as well as numerous 12-inch singles and video works. Her writings on music and culture have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals and magazines. As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist Transgenderism and Queerness, Thaemlitz has lectured and participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan. As of January 2001, he resides in Japan.

 

Lorel Easterbrooks lives and works in New York.

 

Image 1           © Lorel Easterbrooks
Image 2           © Comatonse Recordings