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Looking Glass

Occasionally in life you'll stumble across a being who puts everything in perspective. A looking glass in perfect focus.

If you're particularly blessed, it'll happen every few years. For those of you with fortune similar to mine (verging on obsolete) you might just be able wish on it hard enough to manifest it. 

For me, these beings appear when they're most needed; when I'm at my lowest ebb. Just about to give up control of my life, sit back and become the oxygen-stealing, sack of wasted potential I'm expected to be by what commonly passes as society. I'm trying to be careful here, not to sound too much like a foolish girl with a misguided crush for my soul has grown gnarled and hardy in recent years so as not to allow such things to happen. So, for the sake of a little clarity; your looking glass wont always appear in a form you'd be happy to fuck. Though, for the cost of a little extra gnostic(j)ism, they just might.

I detest the use of the word 'Familiar' in this context. Such a lackluster title to give something that's showing you your path, your way through the mire to who you could be, to essentially an Eden of you're own making. Familiar.  'Oh, yes, I thought your face was familiar' or 'That smell is familiar, I must of stood in some shite' are perfectly acceptable uses of the word 'Familiar'. 'I would never have created my own little paradise on earth without my familiar' isn't. 

Looking glasses inspire. Not through preaching, but by creeping under your flesh and opening you up so fully you're flushed through with their lucidity and purity.  An elysian soul-douche, if you will.

Sometimes they're temporary. Most of mine have been. Trick is, I think, to garner everything they're prepared to gift you, suck it up, miss them when they leave, but always grow.

Michael and the Heygate Estate - One Picture a Month Project - Yiannis Katsaris.

Michael is one of the last residents still living at the Heygate Estate. The estate was completed in 1974 and is located in the London Borough of Southwark, south of Elephant and Castle. It has 1100 homes and a reputation for crime, poverty and deprivation. It's been ten years since the council first announced that the Heygate estate was to be demolished as part of a regeneration/gentrification scheme. The plan is to build a major new town centre for south London, containing new commercial and leisure facilities, an updated transport interchange and 5,300 new homes. The demolition of the Heygate Estate is an essential part of this plan and re-housing Heygate residents into quality new homes in the local area is now a priority. With most of the last few tenants already evicted from their homes, the majority of the last remaining residents – 35 households - on the Heygate estate are leaseholders. Michael and his family however own their house. He refuses to move out because he claims the council is undervaluing the price of his house. He says the amount the council deems it's worth, is not enough for a similar 3-bedroom apartment in central London. His family will either have to relocate far from the centre or apply for a mortgage to be able to afford a new house in the same area.

One Picture Per Month project from FP photographer Yiannis Katsaris. One Picture Per Month explained One picture per month is a monthly mini newsletter by photographer Yiannis Katsaris. The newsletter will feature one of Yiannis’ recent pictures or one from his archive. This communication platform aims to be a gift in your inbox rather than a traditional newsletter. 

http://www.yianniskatsaris.com

Weaponized Art 4.0 - Cicatrix @ INdependence

 

Weaponized Art 4.0 - Cicatrix @ INdependence

This coming Sunday, the 4th of July, Lucy, Tereza and myself will be performing a special one off performance of Weaponized Art 4.0 - Cicatrix at the INdependence event held at Space Engineering.  

Full details below and at SpaceEngineering.org.

Machinekunt Launches Kickstarter Fund for Sanity is Slavery Compilation

For this past year machineKUNT Records (home to Experiment Haywire, Trimetrick, Lady Parasyte, Syrenn etc.) are hard at work on the “Sanity is Slavery” compilation to fight against psychiatric abuse through music. This is a 2 digipack CD compilation which also includes a digital bonus disc. 10% of proceeds are going to MindFreedom International which is an organization dedicated to mental health rights. The compilation features 48 diverse (mostly unreleased) tracks from artists across the globe including Attrition, Hanin Elias, Leæther Strip, amGod, Pzychobitch, and Trimetrick. It is mastered by Kolja Trelle of Soman.

machineKUNT is currently giving away packages to anybody who pre-orders the compilation as they count down the last days of their Kickstarter fund. With everything from paintings made specifically for the cause to customized songs by Experiment Haywire and Society Burning to customized photoshoots of machineKUNT models to professional remixes by De-Tached to rare Attrition posters there are 14 different packages available to everyone who helps machineKUNT reach their Kickstarter goal. In an age of digital media the cost of printing physical albums in astronomical but Rachel Haywire of machineKUNT Records is interested in releasing a collectors item that will be remembered for its meaning and message. The large booklet of this digipack will contain pictures, bios, and testimonials from the artists on the compilation along with testimonials from psychiatric survivors all over the world.

You can pledge on one of the 14 packages here: Sanity is Slavery Kickstarter project

Sample clips of the songs are available for listening directly on the machineKUNT website: machineKUNT Records

The compilation features 48 diverse (mostly unreleased) tracks from artists across the globe including Attrition, Hanin Elias, Leæther Strip, amGod, Pzychobitch, and Trimetrick. It is mastered by Kolja Trelle of Soman.

Tracklisting:

DISC 1:

1. Leæther Strip – Happy Pills (Gimmie Gimmie)
2. Pzychobitch – Insane
3. Trimetrick – Beware!
4. Hanin Elias – Do You Know
5. Empusa ft. Miss FD – Therapy III
6. Experiment Haywire – Reality is Dead
7. Necrotek – Supernatural Breakdown
8. Attrition – Predicament
9. Verbalizer – Angels Dwell
10. ICI – Master Slave
11. Society Burning – One Foot Nailed to the Floor
12. UCNX – Burning Slowly Down
13. Azida – Mister Die
14. Psyche Corp. – Wonderland
15. Angel of Violence – Mr. Sleep
16. Psy’Aviah – Demons In Mind

DISC 2:

1. amGod – Like a Prayer (Insanity mix)
2. Cindergarden – Medicine
3. Syrenn – These Skeletons
4. Lucidstatic – Fistula
5. Johan Ess – A Treatise On Dionysian Oligarchy
6. EAT BABIES? – The Tender Surrender
7. Curiosity – Tarpit
8. Nurvuss – Tomorrow
9. Lady Parasyte – Sirens
10. De-Tached – Twitch
11. AfterChain – You Broke It
12. Zen Debris – Lucid
13. Lady Mystery – Breaking
14. Choronzon – Disdain Transcends
15. Darklilly – Happiness Can Be Small
16. Studio-X – Axis Temple

DISC 3: (digital bonus disc)

1. Hate in the Box – Bloody Ballerina
2. Lip Service – Model Actress Whatever (Nerwrak mix)
3. Produkt – Decay
4. Malfaktor – The Seed
5. Autoclav1.1 – Walk On Empty (Rydal mix)
6. Vernian Process – Unhallowed Metropolis
7. Daniel Cox ft. Wei – Lost in Translation
8. The Tleilaxu Music Machine – Bizzy
9. Amber Codon – Violet (Hole cover)
10. Protea – Anansi
11. Cyranoid – The Polygon
12. Apocalypse Vacant – Behind Fiction
13. Sabotage – God is Dead
14. Catherine Elms – Not Sorry
15. JuL!e D:stroy – Ladie’s Night
16. Strangelette – Send in the Klowns

In association with:

Knowledge of the Hidden Exhibition / Barbican Lates

 

KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIDDEN

A10Lab, noise=noise, and Barbican Lates present an evening of occult and paranormal arts. 

>> Z'EV
>> TONESUCKER
>> RYAN JORDAN & DR. MICK GRIERSON
>> RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON 
>> PHILIP JULIAN >> NICK LAMBERT
>> JONATHAN KEMP
>> JAMES ELPHICK [Guerrilla Zoo]
>> DISINFORMATION

Unlock Swedenborg's Angel communicants with Jonathan Kemps 'Angelic Helmet'; experience Rorschach Audio through Disinformtion; witness EVP experiments with Philip Julian; hallucinate and have your brain waves read by Ryan Jordan and Mick Grierson; ritual cinematic experiences from Raymond Salvatore Harmon and the first screening of Z'EV's EyEar Event #1; revisit the Dreamachines by James Elphick; journey through the past 4000 years of human culture with Nick Lamberts' Oculus; and psycho-navigate yourselves through Tonesuckers hypnotically constructed performances.

This event is FREE! Saturday 3rd July 2010 @ Barbican Centre http://www.barbican.org.uk/lates/ 6pm --- until Midnight

More info : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117294381647787

Standing on the Frontier

A group show by 13 international artists including graduates from the Royal College of Art, Camberwell and Goldsmiths, including friends of FoolishPeople.

Private view: Friday 4th June 2010 6.30pm-9.00pm

Exhibition: Saturday 5th June until Sunday 27th June

Open: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm-6pm

Madame Lillie 10 Cazenove Road Stoke Newington

CHIHO IWASE

CHRIS ROANTREE

DAVID ADKINS

EDWARD BAGENAL

EDWARD TODD

LYN GOLDSBY

NOA EDWARDS

PABLO CASTILLO

PAUL CUMMINGS

PAUL WESTCOMBE

ROB LOGAN

ROBERT ORCHARDSON

TAKAYUKI HARA

 

Smoking Blue Bomb by Noa Edwards

The images presented by the thirteen artists in this exhibition depict views taken on a figurative walk along the frontier between reality and the imagination. On this meandering journey the viewer weaves his or her way across the line that demarcates the boundary between the mundane scenery of familiar places and the surreal landscapes of the individual mind.

The trip begins with portrayals of everyday, humdrum surburbias and industrial spaces but ones which hint at something darker, of failed aspirations and the desire to escape this claustrophobic environment. Hidden amidst the picturesque landscapes lurk fantastic tales and rituals and mystical places. As the artists travel deeper towards the periphery of their thoughts, they conjure up parallel worlds, at times unstable and stormy and devoid of human presence.

 

Art by Takayuki Hara

Dreams form a notable reference point for the images, the artists drawing on the nightmares of the past and constructing them into human hybrids. They retreat into the world of the imagination and into their obsessions of repressed memories, unconscious thought and fantasy. Their work is violent and sexual, restless and macabre. The work fragments into a mass of organic and apocalyptic forms, as the artists unravel their subconscious thoughts through painterly and graphic gestures that struggle to climb over one another and vie for attention.

 

Art by Pablo Castillo

The work is decadent and obsessive. It appears real and is dutifully imagined with intense detail, so that the forms allude to something that could exist. What these artists all have in common is the ability to transform the imaginary into something tangible; an ordering of the subconscious into something we can almost recognize and therefore comprehend. The viewer is seduced into believing that the threshold between reality and the imagination can be bridged.

http://standingonthefrontier.blogspot.com

Standing on the frontier is also on twitter and facebook. 

Alternative Artists Awards launches this Friday

 

This Friday marks the launch of the first Alternative Artists Awards, in association with Bizarre Magazine at The Resistance Gallery.

The Alternative Artist Awards is a unique awards competition show to celebrate and honour the fantastic growing establishment of UK performance arts and live art.

The launch party has a fantastic line-up including some friends of FoolishPeople:

The Great Dr Orbax & Sweet Pepper Klopek

Ophelia Bitz

Syban V

Marnie Scarlet

Twisted Cirque

DJ by MYS-ELF (Guerrilla Zoo)

Tickets cost £6 on the door

Buy advance tickets (recommended)

The Alternative Artists Awards Launch Party
 7pm – Late


Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF


Nr Tube: Bethnal Green

Inner-X Musick & FoolishPeople Beltane Special

 

Inner-X Musick & FP have a Beltane special for you. A limited edition pack that features art and soundscapes by P. Emerson Williams from our last two productions, The Abattoir Pages & A Red Threatening Sky.

TheeBradMiller explains all below...

Beltane Special: The Abattoir Pages and A Red Threatening Sky CD’s

This is a special treat. P. Emerson Williams has been a busy man for a bit now... donating his talents to many projects (Most of you know about the fact that he has done the art work for several SLEEPCHAMBER releases, was a performing member on John Zewizz solo CD, is the main force behind Veil Of Thorns and Choronzon, a member of Kkoagulaa.... and that just scratches the surface). 

One of the project Sir Williams has been involved in is as a core member of FoolishPeople for their London productions Cirxus, The Abattoir Pages and A Red Threatening Sky. Now, these "soundscapes" are available to the public. Both original scores (one for the "Abattoir Pages" and one for "A Red Threatening Sky") are nearly impossible to categorize.

"Abattoir Pages" is the more ambient of the two, but that's not to say it's a dreary floating tone with slow keyboard swells delicately placed through out (yawn). Nope, the "Abattoir Pages" score is not going to your happy place either, but it is a complex ride through a dark time. Never boring. No long stanza's of near silence, this is a production "score" that stands as a powerful piece on it's own. You can check out the "Abattoir Pages" HERE.

"A Red Threatening Sky" is another beast all together. Think Lustmord meets the more zany Nurse With Wound (circa 2000 on). It's crazy, organized chaos. NOT ATMOSPHERIC, NOT INDUSTRIAL, NOT GOTH, Just MADNESS!!!

Both release are early runners for CD of the year... I wouldn't throw that out lightly. P. Emerson Williams is offerning these two CD's as well Veil of Thorns - Necrofuturist and Veil of Thorns - Salon Apocalypse + a piece of P. Emerson Williams original art.

-TheeBradMiller

The four CD bundle + original art can be purchased @Market Apocalypse

To Purchase A Red Threatening Sky:
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To Purchase The Abattoir Pages CD:
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And for the love of it, I bring you a free download of FoolishPeople Weaponized Series 0 + other goodies.

Tim Etchells presents A SHORT MESSAGE SPECTACLE (AN SMS)

This sounds very fucking cool...

Tim Etchells presents
A SHORT MESSAGE SPECTACLE (AN SMS)
This imaginary performance lasts 16 days, with each of its scenes described by text message, relayed as virtual events taking place through the day and night in diverse locations across an equally imaginary city. The audience for this extraordinary work are subscribers to a special phone number and imaginative co-authors in the performance as it unfolds in daily missives to the intimate space of a mobile phone.

It’s free to subscribe, simply text NNF, your postcode, your age to 60777 before 7 May.

More details here:
http://www.nnf10.org.uk/programme/detail/A_Short_Message_Spectacle_An_SMS/

A Short Message Spectacle is a world premiere for the Norwich & Norfolk Festival but you don’t have to be in Norwich to take part, however, if you happen to be in East Anglia next month look out for Forced Entertainment and Tim Etchells at the Festival:

Forced Entertainment present
QUIZOOLA!
15 May 2010 | 7pm
The Garage, Norwich 
Three performers sit inside a circle of bare electric light bulbs, dressed in shabby clown make-up, and begin to interrogate each other with a text of 2000 questions. The audience is free to arrive, leave and return at any point as this extraordinary, marathon game of questions and answers is played out. Dark, hilarious, absurd and intimate, it is a game that survives from moment to moment, a comical and sometimes brutal interrogation that soon gets out of hand.

More details here:
http://www.nnf10.org.uk/programme/detail/Quizoola/

Throughout the Festival Tim Etchells’ Neon Signs will be creating surprise encounters throughout Norwich City Centre.
More details here:
http://www.nnf10.org.uk/programme/detail/Neon_Signs/