GroupChat

So often with interesting art works, particularly those at the edge of different disciplines, we need to talk about what we saw or heard or experienced. Our new programming series, GroupChat combines the fun of checking out something new with a engaging discussion. It’s like a book club for artworks.

GroupChat will present works that don’t always find a venue for collective experiences. We will delve into everything from XR experiences to future cinema to indie gaming.

GroupChat01-Neptune Frost

For the first edition of the GroupChat we present the collaborative work of Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman – a impressive and original work of cinema.
We will screen the work in our Studio space to a small gathering and afterwards unpack the heady and complex experience of the film.
Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Reserve your spot here!

NEPTUNE FROST (2021), 105 minutes

“Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.”