VNM Festival 2025 – Brady Marks

Описание: Brady Marks (Vancouver)
In Search Of...
October 17, 2025
ANNEX, Vancouver, BC

Sound artist Brady Marks will perform a live improvised mix of propulsive music, while narrating a list of personals posts reminiscent of "I Saw You" or "Missed Connection" personal column advertisements from the back of print newspapers like the Georgia Straight and Terminal City from Vancouver.
Historically, queer desire while often coded or marginalized in mainstream visual media (film & TV) thrives in acoustic first space (dark dance floors, underground live music venues). One exception was the "back pages" of local print media, a kind of low rent visual/print media space. This 3rd space of marginalized desire, was home to astrology, advice columns, sex worker and escort service ads, along with a staple of this corner of the media market, the "Missed Connection" posting. With the disappearance of print media this peripheral media landscape has been fragmented and displaced largely online. One app/platform called Lex launched in 2019, which sought to recreate the look and feel of these "Missed Connection" columns particularly courting the queer dating market. In the artist's opinion the app has since lost this particular focus having now "jumped the shark". However during its heyday in the spring of 2022, the artist started collecting particularly evocative examples of these as an essay of queer desire or found poetry. These form the narrative thread of this performance, while the performed music evokes the darkened acoustic 1st spaces that continue to birth, hold and frame renewed versions of queer desire.

Videography: Mingtao Kong
Audio documentation: Dan Kibke

https://www.newmusic.org/events/festi...