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Jackson, D., 2024.

A Promise And A Nice Time.

Output Type:Performance
Venue:Peste, 70 Oldham St, Manchester M4 5EB
Dates:24/10/2024

'A Promise And A Nice Time' is a performative film essay for 2 voices and 1 musician with sounds, images, and words about different things, like love letters, cruel optimism, city streets, Kathleen Stewart, objects of desire, encounters with strangers, the ordinary, letting go, the word 'affect', broken promises, Lauren Berlant, walking barefoot in the rain, questions of geography, circuits and flows, and experiments in academic writing. The ideas are not linked and are mostly "wrong".

Film by David Jackson
Live score performed by Lois Macdonald
Acting with Sue Fox & David Jackson.
Showing as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science




Time: 18.30 - 20.00