Stand by for Failure Documentary & A Performance by Negativland + SUE-C – Cleveland, OH

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 members of Negativland. 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.

moCa’s galleries will remain open until the start of the program at 7:30PM.

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

Film summary: 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

About Negativland and 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.

“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