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Untitled page from 'Foundling' - Lili Spain

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Terra Incognita - Tickets now available..

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.

Tickets available ONLINE NOW! Buy Here.

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...

Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita

1. An unknown land; an unexplored region: "a vast and virtually final terra incognita left to terrestrial explorers".

2. A new or unexplored field of knowledge.

FoolishPeople are looking for performance artists, musicians, d.j’s, artists, poets, writers, dancers, actors, burlesque performers, digital artists, filmmakers and organisers to collaborate with us to perform and exhibit at ‘Terra Incognita’ a unique Meta-Event that FoolishPeople is hosting at the 491 Gallery, London in late March.

The end of time.

The death of culture

The journey into the unknown and how it reflects our journey as a species into the next crucial stage of development or demise.

We’re looking for artists who can use FoolishPeople’s open source myth of ‘Terra Incognita’ to cultivate and develop their own art.

To collaborate and perform or for more information, please contact FoolishPeople via art@foolishpeople.org

www.491gallery.com

You are being watched...

STREET LOUTS TAMED BY CCTV

Big Brother-style talking CCTV cameras which bark orders at louts could be on the way to our streets after a successful pilot scheme in the North of England.

The technology allows CCTV control room operators who spot misbehaviour to embarrass wrongdoers by announcing: “You are being watched” or even caution them of police action.

Toilet Graffiti

Sane or Inane?

“Most so-called ‘mad’ people suffer from the inability to see that the majority of lunatics are dangerous, and that everyday life is a game whose rules we must know, understand and play as if we believed in them.”

Encyclopaedia Psychedelica

Life really is like a game…Cheated by some, played cunningly by others, and misunderstood in its complications that can cheat you.

It seems to be a natural instinct for some players to battle with their realities, and some are perpetually trying to reach a higher level in life and defeat further bosses. They never seem to be content with their achievements because they can see other players ahead of them, conquering higher lands, and they get hungry for the same fruits. Perhaps the most insane thing is the other half of the population, who do have the gnawing in their stomachs, but haven’t the drive and determination to go out and harvest their food: they just want it handed to them on the plate, already cut up into easily digestible pieces. It is this laziness which sucks them into a life within which they drift along aimlessly, with opportunities and ambitions floating alongside them, teasing them with their presence, yet tantalisingly always out of reach. And there are of course those walking dead, the robots who concentrate on the sole notions of carrying out mundane tasks in monotonous routines so much that they miss life happening. Is this ignorance bliss, or just boring?

A lot of players in this game of life might consider all of us at FP to be crazy; but the simple fact is that we’re not content with ‘playing pretending’ in a deceiving world. We are the sane ones, as foolish as that sounds! The difference is we play by distorted rules that make sense; we question, challenge and defy the set parameters of society, and we think…something which seems to be becoming an endangered species in this declining world. We purely want to paint the truth with our art, help players open their eyes so they can see the Achilles Heel of the level bosses, decipher the real rules for themselves, and just simply think. We want you to see the mystical beauties of our world, see into the heart of darkness and experience the exquisite pains and wounded magnificence that makes life live and breathe.

So, the next time some-one calls you a lunatic, (or is it just me they call that?!)

think about whose really sane, and who’s just inane in these magickal games that we play.

Exeter Bound

We are now Exeter bound. Expect Blogging and pictures from the floor of the Weird Weekend, where DR BLEACH is appearing this evening.

I shall be conducting a Q&A after Bleach has done his thing, whatever that thing may be.

And if your at the Weird Weekend this weekend please stop by our table and say hi.

Fear In The Community

FEAR IN THE COMMUNITY Teaser poster by Kel Winser.

FEAR IN THE COMMUNITY is the story of the Cedar Views Residential Home, run by the Life Point Charity, for people who just dont or wont fit into normal or polite society. People like Cedar Views newest client, Patrick Normale.

Patrick Normale must unite the five other clients of Cedar Views into a unique group of heroes who must exploit their disabilities if they are all to survive the very real and evil fear that is feeding on the Cedar Views residential home.

Fear In The Community is a six part horror comic book mini series written by John Harrigan and illustrated by Kel Winser. Published by FPPress in the second half of 05.