NEGATIVLAND/SUE-C LIVE + STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NEGATIVLAND

Thursday, August 8, 2024
Olympia Film Society presents:
Negativland/Sue-C Live
featuring Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland
$25 GA & $20 OFS
6pm doors / 7pm film / 8:40pm Q&A / 9:15pm performance

We’ll start the evening with a screening of STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NEGATIVLAND directed by Ryan Worsley, with a Q&A immediately following with the director. After the film experience a live stage performance by Negativland in WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE accompanied by SUE-C’s unique and immersive visuals.

About the live show: Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you 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: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE. Negativland performs with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually.

On “Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland” by director Ryan Worsley:

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. Negativland continue to be pioneers of art in the electric age, and the medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.

“If you want to be inspired by individuals who dare to bust down the doors of art’s gatekeepers, then Stand By For Failure is the way to go.” —Film Threat

On Negativland:

“An urgent show by Negativland and artist SUE-C calls time on a tech dystopia that is as malevolent as it is stupid… to meet the terrifying contemporary moment… as the world slides incrementally into meltdown.” –The Wire Magazine

“Negativland have made a rewarding career out of being prodigious consumers of media who then digest it and recontextualize it, emphasizing mediated reality’s crazy-making absurdity and the infinite malleability of perception and ‘truth.’” –Dave Segal, The Stranger

“Negativland are proud subverters of culture, causing trouble while having fun.” –NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Accessible Seating:

When purchasing tickets in advance, mark “Wheelchair / Accessible.” Accessible seating sections are located on the main floor in various areas for sight, hearing, size, and mobility needs. If you are comfortable sharing your needs, email boxoffice@olympiafilmsociety.org before purchasing so we can better assist you and ensure your time at the theater is enjoyable.