TheRealist So much culture, so little time. We boil it down to five of the best events
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100 THE LIST 11–18 Aug 2011
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Ben UFO @ Kollektiv CLUBS Ben UFO has been surfing the second wave of dubstep to great acclaim, developing his Hessle Audio record label from a radio show while promoting some stars of the genre along the way. He’s in town to show the Kollektiv posse how to get it on. See interview, page 113. The Admiral, Glasgow, Fri 12 Aug.
Shonen Knife MUSIC Lo-fi grrrl punk from Japan, beloved by Kurt Cobain and the Seattle grunge set. They’ve got almost 20 albums’ worth of material to keep them going, with a Japanified tribute to The Ramones on the cards for their 30th anniversary. See preview, page 123. Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Mon 15 Aug; Nice’n’Sleazy, Glasgow, Tue 16 Aug.
Project Nim FILM English director James Marsh scored a hit with his stunning 2008 documentary Man on Wire, about the French daredevil who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. His follow up returns to New York in the 1970s, but concerns a plot considerably closer to the ground: Nim, a chimpanzee, is adopted into a human family and raised as a child in order to see whether or not apes can learn to communicate with humans. The experiment was inspired by Noam Chomsky’s belief that language is inherently human; the full name of the protagonist (Nim Chimpsky) was designed as a pun to keep the eminent philosopher at the forefront of the project. See review, page 116. Selected release from Fri 12 Aug.
Live Your Questions Now VISUAL ART Inspired by a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke (‘Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers’), this show focuses on works by artists over 60 from at home and around the world. See review, page 131. Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, until Sat 1 Oct.
Pilot AROUND TOWN Part performance evening, part radio show, this event from the Flatrate team (they of Initial Itch and Subcity’s All Day Cheeky Breakfast Show fame) is performed throughout various nooks and crannies at the CCA, all the while being recorded for podcast. Listen to the first instalment at bit.ly/pilot1. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 18 Aug.