Bar Laika presents a screening of Harun Farocki's A New Product. Scenes from meetings within a company which advises corporations how to design their offices—and the work done there. The film shows that words are not just tools, they have become an object of speculation.
Through an expansive exploration of sound, The Great Silence ((2014, 16:22 minutes) examines the irreducible relationships between the living and nonliving, human and animal, and terrestrial and cosmic. The film focuses on the world’s largest single aperture radio telescope, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the edges of the universe. Located at the Arecibo Observatory in Esperanza [Hope], Puerto Rico.
Keith Fullerton Whitman inaugurates the Satellite Mix series with Acid Causality, a blend of recordings made in his home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, now available on SoundCloud. The Satellite Mix series features musicians who have performed or will be performing at Bar Laika as part of the Satellite experimental music program.