Live Weekends: Against Gravity

Launching its second edition, Monaco Magazine is a publication, a website and a programme of events. Instead of reviewing or previewing, the magazine is devoted to sharing ideas and information about things that haven’t happened, and maybe never will.

Italian artist Davide Savorani has a strong background in performance as well as working for Italy’s most significant groups of experimental theatre.

Partly filmed in Jim Morrison’s house in LA, Universal City contains fragments of Californian suburban teenage life interspersed with dark cultural phenomenon.

A kaleidoscopic installation by Conrad Ventur created from filmed performance footage of iconic artists as Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey.

Showcasing songs from their second and as yet unreleased album, the HTRK project enters tech-noir terrain compared to previous slow noise audio landscapes. The music is aminated with a kaleidoscopic installation by Conrad Ventur.

An event in which, through a selection of texts and visual material, he tries to evoke the influence of never-experienced memories on imagining the existence of abstract sculptures.

UK premiere of David Ferrando Giraut's new work which considers adolescent love, the undead, and the idea of cinema as the ruin of a past which emerges in the present

Sample the delights of the more perverse and moody side of dance music with the electronica of Pandora’s Jukebox. This is a beautiful, sometimes surreal and eminently danceable listening experience which makes strange bedfellows of the likes of Philip Glass and Skinny Puppy, Prince and Autechre, Cocteau Twins and Snoop Dog.

Sharpen your senses with an immersive theatrical experience. Part cathartic spectacle and part sensory-deprivation, Matthew Stone’s dream-like performance involves a hypnotic musical score, dance, opera and computer-generated video.

This performative lecture provocatively explores the relationship between culture and governance, education and emancipation throughout the twentieth century.

In contrast to Prouvost’s sensuous work in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010, Charlie is a light, fresh and ironic short video composed around her grandfather.

Against Gravity is a programme of performances, screenings and events curated by Catherine Borra ,showcasing some of today’s most promising young artists.