FoolishPeople

Fissure

Fissure is a durational, site-specific, mixed-media piece that will unfold in the Yorkshire Dales over 3 days in May 20 – 22, 2011. It is an extended, participatory performance, both epiphanic and investigative, in which the artesian continuities of life, death and love are affirmed. Louise Ann Wilson is collaborating with writer Elizabeth Burns, composer Jocelyn Pook, choreographer Nigel Stewart, leading neuro-scientists, neuro-imagers and earth scientists to create this uniquely conceived and created work.

via www.artevents.info

Secret Cinema presents The Red Shoes

Weaponized Announces Publication of Citizen Y

For Immediate Release: London, 14th of February 2011
Weaponized is proud to announce the publication of Citizen Y by John Harrigan and James Curcio. More than a script, Citizen Y is a blueprint of a ritual experience. It is a demonstration of how you can create an immersive, transformative experience for an audience that goes beyond passive entertainment. Parodying our fixation on spoon-fed media, it transports the reader into a post-apocalyptic reality show where the grand prize is the future itself.

Citizen Y fuses characters from James Curcio’s Fallen Nation books and John Harrigan’s GraveLand myth into a unique hybrid narrative. Both writers have decades of experience producing mythic, occult experiences that transcend the boundaries of media, audience and stage. The book also stands as an example of modern myth as discussed in The Immanence of Myth Anthology.

This release by Weaponized includes concept artwork by James Curcio, Daniele Serra, and P. Emerson Williams. Edited by Lucy Harrigan, it will be published by Weaponized and available in print through major retailers and in eBook format from April 2011.

Citizen Y is available to pre-order from today.

About Citizen Y
Civilisation has fallen. In the rubble, we at the Y Corporation have developed the ultimate solution to save society: the Y Show. We encourage all good citizens to sign up for the show. You will be housed within a wonderful Haze Treatment Facility and undergo unique psychological treatment, which will clear away the illness of individuality. This reprogramming will be broadcast to the eyes and ears of citizens in our New World, populated with previous contestants and patients. This is a reality show unlike any other! There is a secret that haunts Haze01, the original treatment facility. Two patients, locked deep within its walls, contain archetypes that reject all reprogramming. They channel portents and omens of another future, a world where myth and divinity remake reality, manifesting a planet fit for Gods. In this season of the Y show, the doctors of the facility make their final attempt to process these two patients, before they break free and unleash total anarchy. Tune in.

James Curcio, Creative Director of Mythos Media, says: “Mythos Media was founded specifically to work on projects like this, and modern myths have been my life passion. I am eager to share the world of Citizen Y, and hope it inspires others to create their own.”

John Harrigan, Artistic Director of FoolishPeople comments: “Citizen Y is a mutant narrative. A frankenstein monster that has roamed our minds for over three years. I’m happy to open the doors to the castle and set our creation free to roam the wild and infect other people’s imaginations.”

NOTES TO EDITORS:

About Mythos Media: Mythos Media was founded by James Curcio, Peter Emerson Williams, Michael Szul and Tovarich Pizor in 2006 to produce modern myths. In the past, these have taken the form of comics, novels, and albums. For more information, please visit: http://www.mythosmedia.net

About Weaponized: The Weaponized imprint extends the immersive art of FoolishPeople into the realm of publishing. Our mission is to seek out and disseminate experimental forms of fiction, prose and art which offer new ways to experience stories and myth. We are passionately committed to finding unique narrative hybrids that challenge, engage, inform and inspire our readers. For more information, please visit: http://www.weaponized.net

About John Harrigan: John Harrigan is a writer, director, performer and artist. He is also known as the founder of FoolishPeople and a contemporary magician whose work centres on the creation of immersive ritual theatre, installation art, books and film that aim to raise a numinous experience within the witness. His work has been exhibited at the ICA, The Horse Hospital, Arcola Theatre and has been presented internationally in the United States and the Netherlands. For further information, please visit http://www.johnharrigan.com

About James Curcio: James creates dystopian propoganda for a generation of disenfranchised hedonists, intellectuals, and drug addicts. This propoganda is fed by a fascination with the overlap of narrative, psychology, philosophy, systems theory, and of course mythology, which seems to be an almost pathological fixation of his. Previous brain-washing agents have taken the form of novels, essays, scripts for comic and films, musical albums, soundtracks, podcasts, live performances, and installations. They were distributed to the eyes and ears of an unwitting public through the internet, print, and social media subversion. Now, in a move that may telegraph some kind of psychotic break, he’s acting in the world’s first Gonzomentary.

PRESS CONTACT For further information please email press@weaponized.net

Citizen Y Published by Weaponized April 2011
ISBN 978-1-907810-10-7

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2010

It's been quite a year for FoolishPeople.

FP started off 2010 in February when we returned to the Old Abattoir with 'A Red Threatening Sky', an immersive performance that explored the earliest Gnostic traditions of Valentine's day.

Love. A vicious, bright beast and one of the most interesting forms of idea/deity we've worked with. I barely survived love's rawest essence with sanity intact.

In March I was rewarded, I married Lucy, FoolishPeople's producer and performer.

In July we held the first 'Theatre of Manifestation' workshop which explored FP's core working practice. The workshop sold out and has lead to collaborations that should touch down in 2011.

A lot of effort and time this year has been spent creating the Weaponized Imprint, extending the immersive art of FoolishPeople into the realms of publishing.

Since the offical launch in August, we've published four books. 'The Sparky Show' by Xandu Xero, 'Forum' by Richard Webb, 'Cirxus' and 'Dead Language'.

Cirxus and Dead Language were the first books to be published from FP's back catalogue of scripts, it's a misconception that the work of FP is devised. All FoolishPeople projects are developed from a script.

Weaponized has begun the task of releasing the scores and soundscapes that accompany our projects and performances created by P. Emerson Williams. We'll be releasing scores and soundscapes created for FP by Sonica Storm in 2011.

In 2010 P. Emerson Williams oversaw the creation of FoolishPeople's  Weaponized podcast, a partnership with Alterati. You can find the archive of this years shows at Alterati.

The end of the year has been our busiest period. On the 5th of November we launched Test Bed One of 'The Providence Experiments'.

'The Providence Experiments' were a unique series of workshops and events that fused experimentation, visualisation, ritual, psychological intervention and immersive game. Test subjects were thrust into bizarre events that offered participants the opportunity to undergo challenging yet positive artistic transformation. 'The Providence Experiments' concluded succesfully with the creation of Rachael Blythe's 'Lilith' performance.

In November we partnered with Secret Cinema on their presentation of Milos Forman's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

 

FP created 'The Basement' - Ward 12, which explored the background and history of author Ken Kesey’s participation in CIA MKULTRA Mind Control experiments conducted at Stanford University on the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD.  This in turn influenced the themes of institutionalization and mind control explored in the book and film.

On the 14th of November we celebrated the offical launch of Weaponized and the publication of 'The Sparky Show' at The Horse Hospital, a venue very important to the mythology of FoolishPeople. FP core members Xanadu Xero and P. Emerson Williams, both from the States were present in the flesh along with authors and artists such as Richard Webb, Paul Bassett Davies and Gabriella Apicella of Storytails.

There's a number of other projects we've been working on throughout 2010 that we're looking forward to sharing with you in 2011.

The form of ritual and art FoolishPeople manifest would not be possible if it wasn't for the artists and performers who join our core creative group to work with us, sometimes for just one project, all in pursuit of creating work which offers numinous truths to those that experience it. Thank you to those of you that have been a part of the journey, both past and present.

The most important element of any FoolishPeople ritual is the paricipants. Our audience. Thank you for continuing to support our work.

See you on the other side in 2011.

'Art on the Inside, Blood on the Outside'.

 

FoolishPeople Present An Evening To Celebrate The Official Launch Of The Weaponized Imprint & Publication of The Sparky Show.

This evening FoolishPeople will host an evening in celebration of the official launch of the Weaponized Imprint and publication of The Sparky Show at The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London.

The Weaponized imprint extends the immersive art of FoolishPeople into the realm of publishing. Our mission is to seek out and disseminate experimental forms of fiction, prose and art which offer new ways to experience stories and myth.

The Sparky Show written by Xanadu Xero in an exploding dossier of words and photography of a doomed and perfect relationship, retrofitted with psilocybin. A report from the trenches of love post culture, mid-life, reminiscent in its gonzo style and 'take no prisoners' attitude to Hunter S. Thompson. Not your average empty-nest Beverly Hills Mom. The Sparky Show is one of the first titles published by Weaponized, featuring raw and uncensored archival photography by the author, with stunning art and design by P. Emerson Williams.

The evening of celebration will include:

• An exhibition of artworks from Weaponized artists and authors Xanadu Xero, P. Emerson Williams and Richard Webb.
• Special live performances by FoolishPeople from John Harrigan's Dead Language, published by Weaponized in September 2010. 
• A panel discussion on Bizzaro, cult and experimental fiction with the Weaponized Authors, hosted by John Harrigan. 
• Live music, in a rare European performance by P. Emerson Williams. More people listen to the sounds of P. Emerson Williams every day than realize it. A visionary artist and an illustrator, his work takes projects spanning physical and digital media, genres and modes of performance to strange realms.

Xanadu Xero, P. Emerson Williams and Richard Webb will be guests at the Weaponized launch and available to sign copies of their books.

Sunday 14th November 8:00pm – 12:00pm

The Horse Hospital Colonnade,
Bloomsbury London,
WC1N 1JD
Free Entry – Book Tickets by emailing tickets(at)weaponized.net
weaponized.net

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FoolishPeople Present An Evening To Celebrate The Official Launch Of The Weaponized Imprint & Publication of The Sparky Show.

On the 12th November, FoolishPeople will host an evening in celebration of the official launch of the Weaponized Imprint and publication of The Sparky Show at The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London.

The Weaponized imprint extends the immersive art of FoolishPeople into the realm of publishing. Our mission is to seek out and disseminate experimental forms of fiction, prose and art which offer new ways to experience stories and myth.

The Sparky Show written by Xanadu Xero in an exploding dossier of words and photography of a doomed and perfect relationship, retrofitted with psilocybin. A report from the trenches of love post culture, mid-life, reminiscent in its gonzo style and 'take no prisoners' attitude to Hunter S. Thompson. Not your average empty-nest Beverly Hills Mom. The Sparky Show is one of the first titles published by Weaponized, featuring raw and uncensored archival photography by the author, with stunning art and design by P. Emerson Williams.

The evening of celebration will include:

• An exhibition of artworks from Weaponized artists and authors Xanadu Xero, P. Emerson Williams and Richard Webb.
• Special live performances by FoolishPeople from John Harrigan's Dead Language, published by Weaponized in September 2010. 
• A panel discussion on Bizzaro, cult and experimental fiction with the Weaponized Authors, hosted by John Harrigan. 
• Live music, in a rare European performance by P. Emerson Williams. More people listen to the sounds of P. Emerson Williams every day than realize it. A visionary artist and an illustrator, his work takes projects spanning physical and digital media, genres and modes of performance to strange realms.

Xanadu Xero, P. Emerson Williams and Richard Webb will be guests at the Weaponized launch and available to sign copies of their books.

Friday 12th November 8:00pm – 12:00pm

The Horse Hospital Colonnade,
Bloomsbury London,
WC1N 1JD
Free Entry – Book Tickets by emailing tickets(at)weaponized.net
weaponized.net

The Providence Experiments

STILL STRUGGLING TO “MAKE IT” AS AN ACTOR, ARTIST, ASTRONAUT, WRITER OR EL PRESIDENTE?
FEELING BLOCKED?
DISILLUSIONED?
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS HAVE ARRIVED.

“Providence is always on the side of the last reserve” Napoleon Bonaparte

WHAT ARE THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS?

The Providence Experiments are a unique series of workshops and events that fuse experimentation, visualisation, ritual, psychological intervention and immersive game. Test subjects will be thrust into bizarre events that offer the willing participant the opportunity to undergo a challenging yet positive artistic transformation.

Over one lunar calendar month, you will receive spontaneous transmissions, puzzles, choices and oddities that may pervade any and every part of your life. Prepare your mind for anything.

This experience will be designed specifically for YOU. Perception of self and reality will constantly be challenged. We will initiate you into in a unique journey where you are the hero or villain in your own story.

The aim of the Providence Experiments is to unleash your subconscious creative potential while offering an amazing, unprecedented experience unlike anything you’ve likely participated in before.

The Providence Experiments will consist of one set session per week in Central London over five weeks, starting Friday 5th November. Specialised directions to each venue will be transmitted 5 days before each session.

Warning: The Providence Experiments will not be confined to the five stated sessions. Active engagement and full participation is vital and absolutely necessary.

WHO CREATES THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS?

YOU and your subconscious will be the true playing ground for the game. However, this experience will be facilitated by FoolishPeople, a group that create immersive occult events using their developed practice Theatre of Manifestation. They will be aided with media and profiling consultation provided by Mythos Media, a team assembled to create modern myths.

HOW DO I SIGN UP?

Prospective applicants must e-mail providence(at)weaponized.net immediately. Do it now: the number of places are extremely limited. If you receive an application form, you are lucky enough to have passed Phase I and are on your way to taking your place within Test Bed One.

DATES

Friday November 5th
Sunday November 14th
Sunday November 21st
Friday November 26th
Sunday December 5th

BOOKING PRICE:

Early booking discount: £150 (£30 per week) Available until 17th October Standard booking: £200 (£40 per week) Available from 18th October

foolishpeople.org
weaponized.net
modernmythology.net