Ali Robertson – The Wireless Dummy (live in the studio)
Monday, 7 September⋅5:00 – 5:30pm
At 5pm – (all the way from Edinburgh) we have Ali Robertson live in the studio with ‘The Wireless Dummy’ – a semi-improvised performance, concerning long and short-term memory, disembodied voices, and the history of ventriloquism.
In the piece Robertson will ponder his own personal experiences as a partially deaf artist living with ADHD and PTSD, and the ongoing, and frequently infuriating, experience of attempting to care for an ailing relative remotely. Serious themes, but delivered with humour and musicality of sorts.
The Giant Tank Institute For Low-Brow Avant-Thought’s resident organiser/improviser Ali Robertson is probably best known for courting public shame in the duo Usurper, with Malcy Duff, but now most frequently exercises his unfunny bone as one half of ‘Off Brand, with Firas Khnaissr, and as one third of Black Affrontit, with Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis, while sporadically pleading for redemption via the altogether more wholesome Sonic Bothy Ensemble.
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