I'm at the glorious and wonderful Treadwell's tomorrow after a week spent with the BBC delivering workshops for them, this will be a refreshing change of pace with which to end the week.
Tomorrow is on Retroactive Time In Ritual, please come down if your interested in taking part, we start at 11am and have a few places left. Full details in the right sidebar.
Myth creation is a funny thing, Its very different from the construction of normal stories or narratives.
Myths must live on when you look away, they must breathe and live and fight for existence. In some ways they must already exist and wait for the right eyes to look upon them and see that they are ready and their time has come.
A group of incredible artists have joined myself and FP to look upon Terra Incognita and see that this Myth is now alive.
Terra Incognita is Open Source and each artists working within its landscape are wiping away the dream like clouds to see how they exist within the various realms of this Myth.
Terra Incognita will exist in solid form from the 31st of March 8pm as a colossal meta event that has broken through to this version of reality.
The construction of the next world has begun.
1. An unknown land; an unexplored region: A vast and final Terra Incognita left to Intraterrestrial explorers.
2. A new or unexplored field of knowledge. ‘Terra Incognita’ a colossal Meta-Event whose landscape is inhabited by every unimaginable creature of art, beauty and horror.
DJ’s, Art Space, Films, Live Bands, Weaponised Theatre, Butoh, Belly and Burlesque Dance. The Holy Body Mod chamber.
Hosted by FoolishPeople at the 491 Gallery, 24th of March 2007 8pm to 7am.
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The end of time.
The death of culture.
FoolishPeople’s open source myth ‘Terra Incognita’ celebrates 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calender early, by holding a mirror to our anti-future, so we can party like it’s the end of our world and the begining of something much better...
Vesna Grandes, new cast member in Cycle V is also an extremely talented photographer. Here is some of her work, and we look forward to seeing more of it over the coming weeks!
Having survived slicing open my foot and denting my head during escalator and cupboard attacks yesterday, (I am always strangely aloof from myself the day of the new moon!), we started rehearsals at the 491 Gallery today for Cycle V, in perfect synchronicity with the dark moon period of rest and beginnings, which brought lots of positive energy.
We welcomed some very talented new cast members: Vesna, Hayley, and Alexis into FP today, and we are very much looking forward to working with them over the next four weeks! During one exercise we had to feel the energies of the room and let ourselves be drawn to a specific place. I was immediately magnetised to a fantastic mixed media piece by Steve Gent, which upon closer inspection later on I realised was entitled:
'Home'.
Which in a beautiful synchronicity is the title of the next Cycle, though I was not surprised in the slightest!
The magick of this year-long ritual continues...
Image by: www.stanford.edu
...is a gallery like no other!
It is a unique Sustainable Community Regeneration Art Project (SCRAP) that has been addressing the needs of the local community for five years in a way that no other organisation could. It is an evolving Arts Piece, a meta-conceptual living room, a pirate utopia, reclaiming neglected land and property and giving something incredible back to the community with a healthy balance of art, regeneration, education, performance, gardening, and diversity of life.
This is why we are proud to announce the 491 Gallery as our official sponsors for the final two cycles of ‘Dark Nights of the Soul’, providing us with a creative space with which to develop our work in this very special environment.
During this time, FoolishPeople will be open source, sharing our skills, resources and abilities though a symbiotic relationship with the 491 Gallery and the surrounding community. FP would like to thank Stef, Lisa, Vittoria and Santi in enabling this to happen. We look forward to this exciting residency!
I was at the private view of the MA show for the Chelsea College of art last night. I was invited by a friend who was exhibiting. Overall the work was excellent.
The evening was only spoiled by the use of live animals in the work. Four live birds crammed into a small cage in one installation was bad enough but one particular video piece which used dogs was blatanly cruel. As artists we have to be prepared to be open to the same scrutiny as scientists who use animals as subjects in testing. People could easily make a case for the fact that animals in art has no use except to show our blantant cruety to the living things we share a planet with. To be quite fucking honest I can walk down the street and make that asumption easily as should everyone with a heartbeat and a soul. I dont need to see another species treated like dirt to understand.
Its really easy to use a living creature suffering in real time to display discomfort instead of using the skills you should have to recreate the experience with art with no further suffering and to push the suffering further for art is just fucking nasty.
The piece in question recorded a pack of hounds in front of a row of meat. Like any dog they wanted to eat the raw meat but if they tried to get close enough they were whipped back by some evil fuck who should be forced to hand in his card which recognises him as a useful member of society.
Dont get me wrong suffering is sometimes necessary for an artist. Ask any past artists who have worked with FP, but the difference is individual choice.
Not how fucking clever you are to point a camera and press record on a horrible scene.
"I now realise that it's these damn brands that are the source of the pain. For every new status symbol I acquire, for every new extension to my identity that I buy, I lose a piece of myself to the brands. I placed my trust, even some love with these companies, and what have I had in return for my loyalty and my faith? Absolutely nothing. How could they, they're just brands."
Neil Boorman a music promoter and style magazine editor by trade on on life as branded flesh. Neil in less than a month's time plans to burn every branded thing in his possesion. Gucci shoes, Habitat chairs, even Simple soap. He has reached a point where he can no longer be around these things, no matter how special they make him feel.
Rehearsals began this week at Treadwell's for Weaponised Art 1.0, our performance at Guerrilla Zoo on the 19th of August at Corsica Arts Club.
The script deals with modern Magickal subversiveness and much of the ideas and themes touch upon the work FP has conducted over the last year.
Much of today was spent taking what we have apart and seeking its strengths when in the hands of core FP performers. It was good to get back to working with people like Mark Wright (Wound). He's very fucking funny and a pleasure to work with.
Much of the script was written in various fugue states. I'm trying to replicate altered states that mimic communion with pharmacological Egregore's but with no ingestion of the substances. Most drug induced states are available via sleep deprivation, exhaustion, sex or various other methods. I'm playing with Leary's 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness on this one, so expect me to be even more incoherent than normal as we begin to tool up Weaponised Art 1.0.
Its hard to know how to begin an explanation of ones journey as a FoolishPerson. Mines been marvelous. That of a Fool. Teetering on the edge of possibility until the purest inspiration of art I've ever seen flies me right off.
Excuse the exaggeration I'm a Scorpio. No fuck that, it has been that crazy, that utterly Magickal and for a a five foot welsh girl from Newport most fucking bizarre. My life has literally spun upside down, a result of my attempt to ensure that my daily life reflects my instinct. and whilst i love the universe for the gifts of change its pretty fucking hard to make reality catch up sometimes, I've been overcome with the urge to suddenly not care at all about money, a dangerous thought for anyone who spends their time with a sitar playing Bulgarian and a beautiful moon-child on a regular basis but hey welcome to FP.
A mirror to your soul. Days of illumination wrapped in the intent to change the world. As you may be able to tell I'm pretty excited, I am trying not to swear too much but that's how good it feels to be me right now. amongst all the craziness I've recently created for myself is this opportunity to communicate to anyone brave enough to really listen all the things we seem to be slowly slipping into utter ignorance over, the lines are becoming blurred my friends and it all just feels a little too fucked sometimes. I'm afraid I cant claim to have the answers though, but I'm well open to any suggestions, a collaborated manifesto, bring it.
Heres another beautiful thing im learning about FP, how the daily time we spend together is a true reflection of the instinct to want to wake the fuck up. How dare we inflict upon those who come to listen a journey we have yet to go down? thats just plain rude. you gotta try.
I think a part of me still holds a belief in human nature that most people tell me is idealistic and naive, but let me just share this thought with you. if we all caught ourselves in a mirror, truly caught ourselves in the mirror, trapped in the space of who you are and who you're meant to become, (in the words of Mr Harrigan), if we all open ourselves to revelations of endless possibility wouldnt some of all this shit stop? wouldnt the world be a better place? ever the idealist aimless, I just have more faith in trying than giving up and handing it over. Talks of fox hunting, pregnant rabbits being forced to run n tread mills to research exercise in pregnant women, and monkeys being tortured to test the effects of stress on their menstrual cycle. We've got the balance wrong, is it possible to evolve in the wrong direction? I dont know where we're going but we've got to start looking surely and if we all did that would it all not become a little kinder? just a little more compassionate for our entire wee planet.
So beautifully insignificant we may as well try all we can to keep it strong.
Wheres the harm in giving it a go?
I recently did an interview with Suzanne Corbie of MySpiritRadio.com. Good fun apart from the fact I sound like I have snorted 20kg of coke the previous night. I recommend MySpiritRadio, lots of cool and light hearted stuff.
Part one Harrigan with nose issues
Part two Survivor of Drama, Magick and Power
With rehearsals for Cycle III of Dark Nights of the Soul come nerves this time. Which is a rarity believe me. They kick off tomorrow at the usual place with most of the usual cast, but something has struck me as very unusual for this, our third venture into Dr Bleach's realm.
A sort of expectation, waiting for that moment where all the cards get tossed up into the air; which seems to come as mandatory with each script, but never when you expect it. Waiting for that moment to come and peak and do it's worse and leave again...and waiting...and waiting...but it's not coming.
Holy shit, things are moving along very neatly indeed. Zut alors! But this can not be, 'tis simply not the FP way!
Part of this success is owed to the marvelous lady responsible for the beautiful shot you see above and also for the brand new DNOTS trailer for Cycle III - Emergence.
Alexa Looker is now not only cast but is throwing onto the FoolishPeople pyre her skills within digital art.
Having studied performance, digital art, live art and contemporary theatre at Northampton University and also trained in contemporary dance and ballet with a background in sonic art/music Alexa makes for the most modest, gifted all around artist you could ever meet.
I'll update here as soon as we secure the date for the next cycle.
I'm deep into the research for the first Dark Nights of the Soul and I come across the piece below which is taken from the transcribe of an Art Bell show which aired on the 14th of June 1996. Major Ed Dames a remote viewer who states he worked for the CIA etc was the guest.
10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee Clara Barthelemy: "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city… to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed… people are afraid to speak out… everyone who was near there heard the bombings… they bombed seven times. That's why they didn't fix the levees… 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life. A six year old girl was raped in here.. 9 year old boy killed. A man in the shower beaten. No hot food. No help for elderly."
From BoingBoing.
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A dramatic rise in carbon dioxide caused temperatures to soar to 10 to 30 degrees Celsius higher than today, say US researchers.
The warming had a profound impact on the oceans, cutting off oxygen to the lower depths and extinguishing most lifeforms, they write in the latest issue of Geology.
The research adds to the growing body of evidence that higher temperatures, rather than a giant space rock hitting the planet, led to the greatest mass extinction in history.
The Book Of Hate is emotional cryptography.
The open source code to a soul cracked, deciphered and delivered to the world.
By John Harrigan and Yiri T. Kohl.
To be published late 2008.
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