MATATU: Saul Williams @ Grand Lake

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MATATU kicks off with Saul Williams September 26, 2018 and closes on November 3, 2018. This year most programs are by donation with PAY WITH WHAT MAKES YOU SMILE.

Saul Williams returns to kickoff the 2018 MATATU Festival of Stories. Part film, part performance, everything is on the table in this conversation with one of the world's most prolific artists - of all time.

co-presented by Amoeba Music
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THE THIRD PART OF THE THIRD MEASURE
The Otolith Group, 43 minutes, 2017

The Third Part of the Third Measure (2017), a new audiovisual composition commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and Sharjah Biennial 13, creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of avant-garde composer, pianist, and vocalist Julius Eastman. The Third Part of the Third Measure focuses on what The Otolith Group describe as “an experience of watching in the key of listening,” invoking political feelings of defiance and the collective practice of movement-building that participates in the global struggles against neoreactionary authoritarianism. The Third Part of the Third Measure invites viewers to attend to exemplary ecstatic aesthetics of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as “full of honor, integrity, and boundless courage.”
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SAUL WILLIAMS

Williams has been breaking ground since his debut album, Amethyst Rock Star, was released in 2001 and executive produced by Rick Rubin. After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings at the turn of the century, Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities, with invitations that have spanned from the White House, the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, The Louvre, The Getty Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, to countless, villages, townships, community centers, and prisons across the world. The Newburgh, New York native gained a BA from Morehouse and an MFA from Tisch, and has gone on to perform with Nine Inch Nails and Allen Ginsburg, as well as countless film and television appearances.
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