Photo by Frank Sperling

Workers in Song by James Richards and Billy Bultheel

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Workers in Song is the result of a collaboration between composer Billy Bultheel (b. 1987, BE) and visual artist James Richards (b. 1983, UK), who found one another based on an expansive approach towards their disciplines. Bringing together archival film and music with newly created footage and scores, their performance is haunted by the histories of occult photography and spectral music and is replete with references to their previous works as well as more quotidian pleasures such as online hook-ups, subcultures of bygone eras, and the darker dimensions of romantic subjectivity.

Performances on June 7-9