Negativland with SUE-C, "Stand by for Failure: A Documentary about Negativland"

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Negativland and Jennifer Bennett

Some of the members of Negativland, 2021.

Some of the members of Negativland, 2021.

The San Francisco area multi-media experimentalists Negativland make a rare Madison visit at this multi-part event. First is a screening of Stand by for Failure: A Documentary about Negativland, a 2023 film by Ryan Worsley, followed by a Q&A with the band. Then Negativland takes the stage joined (virtually) by another audio-visual experimenter, SUE-C, for a performance of their collaboration, We Can Really Feel Like We're Here. It should be a one-of-a-kind evening, co-presented by Mills Folly Microcinema, MMoCA Cinema and Auricle New Music Series.

media release:  Mills Folly Microcinema, Auricle New Music Series, and MMoCA Cinema presents a special screening and performance with Negativland and SUE-C, We Can Really Feel Like We're Here on Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7:00pm at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State Street.

Tickets are $20 in advance online, or $25 at the door. Advance tickets will be available online at Brown Paper Tickets starting Friday, August 23, 2024 at 9:00am. 

The evening will begin with a screening of Stand by for Failure: A Documentary about Negativland directed by Ryan Worsley (2023, 99 minutes) and a Q&A with Negativland. In 1978 David "The Weatherman" Wills, Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia world without boundaries, ownership or privacy. Negativland's complex chaos of plunderphonics poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the global village. 

After the film, experience a live stage performance by Negativland and SUE-C: We Can Really Feel Like We're Here, their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions as we head into our next election. Negativland will perform in the MMoCA auditorium with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually.