Jacob Samuel

happy to have Jacob Samuel at Zentrale for a video screening of his work
start at 7pm !
he will also perform at venster99 on the 21.2. at:
Good for Nothin’ / Serious Serious Label Night

“Jacob Samuel is a musician and artist who explores how form, from the industrial revolution to simulated world building, affects communication and individuation.

If you die… translates birth, death, marriage, divorce, infant mortality and immigration statistics to a score in Minecraft.

All new worlds: all new Americas.

New people in a new world erase systemic power structures of society to ground an identity to go forward.

On the state nation of America thomas Bender wrote ‘A history in common is fundamental to sustaining the affiliation that constitutes national subjects… nations are, among other things, a collective agreement, partly coerced, to affirm a common history as the basis for a shared future.’

It is in this way information is understood, with a desire to achieve coherence. This is done by applying it to our most readily available forms.

The forms available are theatres in which to perform. Identity is one long performance and the opposite of what is thought of as a self. A person does not discover a self but, like a character in a film or game, invents it through roles that may not form any coherence.

God bless you new Americas

The new piece, based on Yeats’ golden mechanical bird, out of nature, singing of what was past and passing and to come to a drowsy emperor. A score of immigration in the 20th century.”