Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence
This invitation is open to all. A call. A cry. Proposed is not a con-ference (con-ferre (lat.), bringing together), but a non-ference (to not carry). Negation, from the very beginning, always a line in the sand. A disintegration, rot and decay, coming apart and to come undone. Desonance, not resonance.
A being together in homelessness, an interplay of the refusal of what has been refused, the undercommon appositionality, a place from which emerges neither self-consciousness nor knowledge of the other but an improvisation that proceeds from somewhere on the other side of an unasked question. The barbarian waiting before and after civilization. Untimeliness. Discord with the false present.
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Ultrablackness is a determining force. The outside folding in. Background noise of the thermodynamic disequilibrium. An indifferent un_groundedness, opaque like a heterogeneous mixture or transparent like see-through fluids.
Not to be differentiated, but the 0 that defines 1.
Ultrablackness therefore is not to be confused with the void - emptyness -, but is intrinsically messy. That which messes with the attempt to define, to limit, and territorialize, a dæmonic force subverting the godly order, defying the One-God-Universe. Black noise, unlike the searing buzz of white noise, is barely audible. Black noise traces the quiver of things we fail to perceive.
Our uchromia: to learn to think from the point of view of Black as what determines color in the last instance rather than what limits it.
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Simplify color! See black, think white! See black rather than believe ‘unconscious.’ And think white rather than believe ‘conscious.’
Don’t see, be a seer. Stop seeing and start visioning. Be a visionary.
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Ultrablack - blacker than black - denotes practices of negation, deconstruction, non-philosophy, pessimism and nihilism, heterogeneity, disintegration, queering, noise, insurrection, etc. etc.
„Everything has to be rejected – and everything has to be rethought. It needs an act of major and painful disruption, an act of distancing, maybe even of violently marking a break, a rupture, a stopping of routine communication: the axe that is hacked into the table during conversation.
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It is a kind of disaster studies, an act that breaks down the formal structures of space and time. In the mimicry of this approach to electronic music, both in science and in music, the formal structures of time collapse, regress to mud, and space is pushed back and forth until it bends to be trampled by the pulsations of alien music, while the thinking space becomes seasick: this is the disruption as it can be experienced when ultrablackness hits you. When the all-consuming, all-absorbing and all-imploding might of ultrablackness exercises its power of radical, pervasive and fundamental negation. The one message, the one action, the one intervention of ultrablackness is taking an axe and ramming it into the fake common ground or shared table and says: NO.“
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The ultrablack non-ference of mille plateaux is a weekend full of lectures, workshops, concerts, screenings, installations and DJ sets. Offering space to unsound practices.
With kind support of:
Achim Szepanski | @force_inc_music_works
Mattin | @abjectmusic
Cristian Vogel |
Tom Lönnqvist | @tomatom3
Andrea Taeggi | @andreataeggimusic
utopixel | @cipp0_
a!kira | @hagia_akira | @becoming.press
Sun People | @sunpeople_officia
Lino Leum | @world_of_lino_leum
Reza Kellner | @reza.kellner
auto sophia / scar sisters | @autosophia1230
Charlène Levasseur | @sukkube_
oto_moto |
MIASMA | @666miasma
Marko Ciciliani | @mciciliani
Jeronimo Voss | @jeronimo.voss
Martin Stiehl |
Polymnia | @___polymnia
Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. | @ibrahim__alfa_jnr
Automatisme | @automatisme_williamjourdain
DMSTFCTN | @dmstfctn
Paul Wolff / Stereoist | @paul_ruben_wolff
Lain Iwakura | @ezili.i.sabbah
Marco Simioni | @marcosimioni_
Katharina Bévand | @katharina_bevand
Darko Vukic | @savazolog
Charlène Levasseur | @sukkube_
Siegfried Kärcher | @instsk
John-Robin Bold | @johnrobinbold
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More to be announced.
Sponsored by Stadt Graz, Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V.
With kind support by Aporon21, KUG Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik, and Forum Stadtpark.
ULTRABLACK NONFERENCE: 24.10. - 02.11.
24.10. | Tuesday | Kunst Klub Kräftner, Aporon21
REITSCHULGASSE 13, 8010 GRAZ
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Lain Iwakura with "undone"
27 - 28 Oct | Friday - Saturday | Forum Stadtpark
STADTPARK 1, 8010 GRAZ
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Exhibition in Forum Stadtpark's main room with the visual artists Jeronimo Voss & Martin Stiehl as well as other participants of the ultrablack nonference
27.10. | Friday | Forum Stadtpark
STADTPARK 1, 8010 GRAZ
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18:00-19:30: Lecture with Achim Szepanski
19:30-21:00: Lecture with Mattin
21:00-21:30: Film screening: videos by Cristian Vogel
21:30-22:30: Live music: Tom Lönqvist
22:30-23:30: Live music: Siegfried Kärcher
23:30-00:30: Live music: Andrea Taeggi
00:30-01:30: Live music: Ibrahim Alfa Jnr.
01:30-02:30: Live music: utopixel
02:30-04:00: DJ set: Sun People
04:00-06:00: DJ set: a!kira
28.10. | Saturday | Forum Stadtpark
STADTPARK 1, 8010 GRAZ
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15:00-17:00: Workshop with Siegfried Kärcher, Resolume
17:00-18:00: Film screening & talk: DMSTFCTN
18:00-19:00: Lecture with Marko Ciciliani
19:00-20:00: Live music: Lino Leum
20:00-20:30: Live music: Reza Kellner
21:00-22:00: Live stream: Automatisme
22:00-22:30: Live music: auto sophia / scar sisters
22:30-23:00: Live music: Charlène Levasseur
23:00-24:00: Live music: Mattin
24:00-02:00: tba
02:00-04:00: DJ set: oto_moto
04:00-06:00: DJ set: MIASMA
29.10. | Sunday | SUb
KAISER-FRANZ-JOSEF-KAI 66, 8010 GRAZ
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18:00: Heim/Weh
29.10. | Sunday | CUBE
INFELDGASSE 10/ III, 8010 GRAZ
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12:00 - 16:00: Workshop with Mattin
30.10. | Monday | Forum Stadtpark
STADTPARK 1, 8010 GRAZ
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14:00 - 18:00: Workshop with Mattin
31.10 | Tuesday | CUBE
INFELDGASSE 10/ III, 8010 GRAZ
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09:00 - 13:00: Workshop with Mattin
02.11. | Thursday | Dom im Berg
SCHLOSSBERGPLATZ 1
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Nerd Nights w/ mille plateaux