BY EMILIE LAURIOLA
SUMMONING THE SPIRITS OF “NIGHTTIME DRINKING JOINTS”, SASORI BOOKS PRESENTS A COCKTAIL BAR BUILT ON AN IMAGINED GATHERING WITH THE ROAMING GHOSTS OF COOKIE MUELLER, KATHY ACKER AND OTHER HEROINES
FIVE NIGHTS OF DRINKS, MUSIC, RARE BOOKS ON THE WALLS, A MAGAZINE LAUNCH AND A SCREENING OF ‘VARIETY’ ACCOMPANIED WITH A GLASS EDITION BY CARLOTTA BAILLY-BORG AND A SOUNDTRACK BY CHRISTINA VANTZOU
SAVE YOUR TEARS & MONEY
SPEND THEM AT
BAR SASORI
OPENING
WEDNESDAY 30.10.24 / 18:00 – 22:00
WEDNESDAY 30.10.24 / 18:00 – 22:00
OPEN
31.10.24 – 03.11.24 / 17:00 – 22:00
31.10.24 – 03.11.24 / 17:00 – 22:00
WEDNESDAY 30.10.24
18:00 – OPENING
20:00 – MUSIC BY VITTORIA TOTALE
20:00 – MUSIC BY VITTORIA TOTALE
EDITION PRESENTATIONS BY CARLOTTA BAILLY-BORG & CHRISTINA VANTZOU
OPENING NIGHT WITH THE LAUNCH OF CARLOTTA BAILLY-BORG’S NEW COCKTAIL GLASS EDITION AND ‘SONGS FOR THE NIGHT LIBRARY’, COMPOSER CHRISTINA VANTZOU’S BAR SOUNDTRACK ON CASSETTE TAPE. BRIDGING HER RESEARCH IN LANGUAGES, VOICE IN SOUND AND VOICE AS SOUND, WRITER AND MUSICIAN VITTORIA DE FRANCHIS WILL PRESENT ‘POLIGLOSSA’, AN UNCANNY DJ SET CROSSING SOUND POETRY, VERNACULAR AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
THURSDAY 31.10.24
20:00 – MUSIC BY ‘OBJECTS AND SOUNDS’
ENOUGH DRINKS AND SLOW MUSIC TO GO UNTIL THE END OF THE NIGHT OF THE DEAD WITH A DJ SET BY GHENT-BASED LABEL ‘OBJECTS AND SOUNDS’, ACCOMPANIED BY A SELECTED PRESENTATION OF TAPES, RECORDS AND THEIR LAST VINYL RELEASE WITH ARTISTS LOUIS REITH AND EELCO TOPPER.
FRIDAY 01.11.24
19:00 – MAGAZINE LAUNCH: ‘LE CHAUFFAGE’ ISSUE 3 WITH MUSIC BY LAURA STELLACCI
‘HOW TO KEEP YOU WARM?’ EDITED BY EMILE RUBINO AND FELIX RAPP, THE NEW ISSUE OF THE BRUSSELS-VANCOUVER ARTIST-RUN MAGAZINE ‘LE CHAUFFAGE’ CONSIDERS THE PRACTICES OF ARTISTS/WRITERS AND THEIR DAY JOBS.
SATURDAY 02.11.24
20:00 – SCREENING NIGHT: ‘VARIETY’ BY BETTE GORDON (1983)
CO-WRITTEN WITH KATHY ACKER, BETTE GORDON’S 1983 EXPERIMENTAL FILM NOIR FOLLOWS A YOUNG WOMAN WORKING THE TICKET COUNTER OF AN ADULT FILM THEATER, INCREASINGLY ENMESHED IN HER OBSESSION FOR A CLIENT AND HER INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS ON PORNOGRAPHY. SET IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES IN NEW YORK CITY, ‘VARIETY’S’ DISRUPTIVE REPRESENTATION OF SPIRALING DESIRE TURNED IT INTO A FEMINIST CLASSIC.
DURATION: 100 MIN
