RANDOM PLAYLIST

RANDOM PLAYLIST will transform the WPA into a micro-cinema in July and early-August, inviting four cultural producers from widely differing practices to share a selection of moving images that they look to for inspiration, elements of visual language, and clues to broader cultural concerns. Join us each Thursday night as WPA inaugurates a new playlist with drinks, casual conversation, and an informal discussion of the selections, hosted by James Huckenpahler.

PLAYLISTS

Thursday, July 12, 7-9pm
Featuring Dawne Langford
Footage from the era of Operation Desert Storm; a raw assemblage of materials from the commercial TV wasteland, as well as videos from RISD grads propaganda based band, EBN, “manipulating media instead of the media manipulating us”.

Thursday, July 19, 7-9pm
Featuring Alex Oliva
A study of collective movement throughout the animal kingdom, with a focus on synchronization, choreography, mobs, crowds, and flocks.

Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm
Featuring PLAKOOKEE
Obscure performance, deep research dives, and late night karaoke rabbit holes.

Thursday, August 2, 7-9pm
Featuring Andy Johnson
Interstitial moments of overdramatic characterizations, passionate gazes, sexually charged contact and touch, etc. drawn from gay porn.