description
Presented at Dock 11 (Berlin), Songs of Oh and Woe was an experimental concert/weird lecture by Jeremy Wade and Bráulio Bandeira (DEEPNEUE) that braided folk traditions and queer oral histories with electronic music, noise, ambience, and field recordings. Each artist arrived at the process with personal “archival footage.” The duo then conducted and transcribed a long-form interview (childhood nightmares, what family was like, first sexual experience, conversations about class, early shame), edited it with love, and performed the resulting script live as a sung/spoken/movement score.
The piece was a real-time remixing of a supercharged strange encounter, where archival video footage refracted with different depths of memory in a complex mess of a concert-essay. Auto-theory and lived experience met movement and sound, as Wade and Bandeira co-authored vivid atmospheres of the 'oh' of life and the 'woe'.
In Memory of Renee French, Rob Talin and so many other queens we have lost along the way past and present.
Archival Footage Jeremy 1997 - 2008 NYC/Berlin
Archival Footage Bráulio Bandeira 2002- 2022 Lisbon/Berlin
Live Video Mixing Archival Footage - François Pisapia
The piece was a real-time remixing of a supercharged strange encounter, where archival video footage refracted with different depths of memory in a complex mess of a concert-essay. Auto-theory and lived experience met movement and sound, as Wade and Bandeira co-authored vivid atmospheres of the 'oh' of life and the 'woe'.
In Memory of Renee French, Rob Talin and so many other queens we have lost along the way past and present.
Archival Footage Jeremy 1997 - 2008 NYC/Berlin
Archival Footage Bráulio Bandeira 2002- 2022 Lisbon/Berlin
Live Video Mixing Archival Footage - François Pisapia
credits
by
Jeremy Wade /
in collaboration with
Bráulio Bandeira /
Dramaturgy
Julian Fricker /
Video
Christopher Hewitt /
Photos
Ali Bay
video