Laika delivery service and Satellite mix series 002

This week Bar Laika will begin a little experiment for our screening series—those of you who live near us in Brooklyn, Queens, and lower Manhattan can order drinks* for pick up or home delivery and receive a link to a film and online Q&A with your order. We have cocktails, kits, sakes, wines, and liquors, with more to be added as we move forward. Let us know what you’d like! We’ll aim to do this every week we’re able, until we reopen. 

We’ll start this Thursday with a screening of Day in the Life by Karrabing Film Collective, with Elizabeth Povinelli. We’re excited to see you all!

Also, the second release in our Satellite mix series is now available, a hybrid DJ/live set from 51717, who was scheduled to perform at Bar Laika before the shutdown. Satellite mix series features musicians who have performed or will be performing at Bar Laika as part of the Satellite experimental music program. Listen here.

* Please note that for now we will only be offering the service on days of online screenings, orders will need to be received by 5pm, and state regulations require purchase of a food item with alcohol, we have a few options available. We’ll of course be following all health and safety protocol, contactless is available. We’re sorry we’re not able to deliver further, write to us if you have any problems : ) 

Bar Laika presents: Screening Workshop of Karrabing Film Collective, Day in the Life (30:42 minutes, 2020)
Thursday, May 7, 9:30pm (zoom)

Join us for a drink with a screening of Day in the Life followed by a zoom Q&A with Elizabeth Povinelli. Orders for pickup or delivery placed on our site by 5pm will be delivered before 9pm and include a link to the film and event. The film will be accessible only through Friday morning, the conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli will start at 9:30pm.

Day in the Life explores the ordinary obstacles Indigenous families face as they move through an ordinary day. Across five chapters—Breakfast, Playtime, Lunch Break, Cocktail Hour, and Dinner Time—and a audioscape directed by its younger members, DIL is a visual and sonic landscape that dramatizes and satirizes the settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism that Karrabing members encounter over the course of a day.

Karrabing Film Collective is an indigenous media group based in Australia’s Northern Territories that uses filmmaking and installation as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organization.

Satellite mix series 002: 51717
Available now on Soundcloud 

042820 is a hybrid DJ/live set recorded by 51717 at her home in Brooklyn, NY. 

51717 is the intuitive language of New York-based artist Lili Schulder, a longtime fixture in the NYC D.I.Y. electronics scene. Releases on cult underground labels such as Jealous God, Total Black, and L.I.E.S. have served as tangible documentation of her exploration of themes and emotions handed down to her via an Orthodox Jewish upbringing. 51717’s minimalist sound design is focused on the transmission and decay of overwhelming thematic elements into minor sonic forms. Her work touches on implicit musical tensions between noise and silence, language and sound, material and transcendence—dichotomies that often form the binaristic conditions that are confronted and deconstructed within meditative and ritualistic practice.

Satellite is an experimental music series curated by Sanna Almajedi. 

For more information, contact laika@e-flux.com.