Two more nights left for the Terra:Extremitas ritual. Tonight we have a special appearance by Nathaniel J. Harris & Jasmine of Skratte and Anton Channing founder of KIA Illuminated Adepts.
Terra continues to be one of the most intense and enjoyable performance experiences I have had, FP are finding new ways to open the narrative to our witnesses.
Artifacts soon.
"Terra: Extremitas is an evolving Open Source Myth that uses human fiction as fuel to run its immense engines of change. The mechanics of this story are also a living puzzle box constructed from the purest element of magick:
Art.
Its structure is hidden, yet it invites you to shift and move within the eternal mind, falling ever deeper, becoming part of this myth. Terra:Extremitas is the second annual TERRA Meta Event, the first occured in London March 2007. Terra:Extremitas takes that initial seed and expands on it in every way.
The core story of Terra:Extremitas focuses upon Fiction; the life blood of the human race. It sticks to everything we are. Over the Aeons we have learnt to use it to create the superstructures of our reality. We have permitted other people's experiences both real and unreal to replace our own.
Fiction permeates through all of our relationships. We use our history to protect ourselves from amnesiac time. Forging moments with one another that are strong enough to outlast our individual lives.
The Fiction forces us to slough off our old and dead selves. It comes for these sacrifices wearing our freshly skinned imaginations. Opening up serrated tears in the fabric of the universe, revealing immense entwined beings. Copulating divinity manifested on the other side of never. I have lost myself to art and fiction over and over again. I no longer see who I once was. It has forced me to become something else, ruthlessly adapting and restructuring every version of myself to create a being capable of birthing the eternal Fictions that live forever within.
I hope that the Terra:Extremitas puzzle box can reveal the love and danger contained within all of the Fiction."
Philippe Javier Garcesto was born in Iloilo City, Philippines and traveled to the exotic state of New Jersey when he was 8. He represents the fusion of the Western Educated Scholar and the Indigenous Spiritual Artist. He creates multi-disciplinary visual performance experiences cutting open the shackles imprisoning consciousness by throwing his flow like spears to the heart.
About Philippe's work:
"My work has centered on exposing the fraudulent materialistic society perpetrated through economic imperialism as the empty and destructive reality created by Capitalism's greed. I create experiences manifested in the multi-disciplinary fusion of art forms where I expose the intangible layers of reality through storytelling and mythology. It is only in the liminal space created by my visual performances that I can strive to accelerate the consciousness revolution by shocking the senses into exploring the intimate individual connection to Mother Earth and the collective consciousness."
About Terra:Extremitas:
"I am grateful to FoolishPeople for allowing me the opportunity to collaborate with them in this experience. It is by fate and chance that I have found myself in the incredible position of returning home to the Philippines where I will be doing a live webcast performance straight to Amsterdam. My journey here has been a powerful and life-altering experience allowing me to recognize my roots and realize my ability as a Babaylan. I am only at the beginning of my explorations but I have felt a calling in the US that has only deepened since my arrival here in the end of June. It is here at the heart of the US manufactured dystopia that the bigger picture will be revealed. We are one life, one love, and one struggle against the corporate monopolies whose opportunistic seizure of ancestral lands of Indigenous People across the globe has destroyed the carefully preserved balance with the Earth. For the Indigenous People "Land is Life". Chief Seattle said it best,
"The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth."
This comic about the TERRA-event will be in Dutch newspaper Trouw next week... It's all in Dutch, but you may get the gist of it:
Originally born in Thessaloniki Greece, Christina Mitrentse has been living and working in London since 2000. She holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Post Graduate Diploma and MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Greenwich University, London. She has been teaching art and design at Epping Forest College and her artworks have been exhibited in private and public collections in Greece and around Europe.
Selected exhibitions include: ‘Connected’ Gallery Spilioti Projects Athens 2008, Olympolis Contemporary International Festival, Pieria, Greece 2008, 'Artists Book Library’, Picot Biennial, Pool UK 2008, The new Lexicon at the Apartment Gallery, Athens 2007, 'An Outing' Beltsios Collection, Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century’ (2006) ‘The Secret School’ solo show at RAT gallery London 2005. ‘Visions' a contemporary Art show, Kappatos gallery, Imperial hotel Athens 2005. ‘Emerging artist explore Cinema’ Griechishe Kultustiftung, Berlin Germany 2005. She has also exhibited at the Mile End ART Pavilion in East London 2007, at ‘Run rabbit run’ at the Primo Alonso Gallery, London, 2007 ‘Addressed to the Hat’ at Mezkalito Gallery, London 2007. Multiples Art Fair at Decima gallery, Hackney wick, London 2008. She has an upcoming public sculpture commission at ‘Area Code’ art project in Greenwich-Woolwich, South London (Winter 2008).
About Christina's work:
Christina's art is formed as an experimental laboratory where the notion of interpretation is to be found at the same place as the larger conservation of scientific field, the institutionalized information and the co-existence of aesthetics. “With ironical exaggeration, I adduce the processes of observing, collecting, displaying and curating. The manifestation contains drawings, sculptures, photography and installation, which when personalized within the laboratory of the everyday, becomes a presentation, inviting a debate between the scientific narrative and the museological approach. The sculptures and works on paper re-create the quasi-scientific and educational truth expressed in science and history books. In an incessant reference to metaphor, which defines the significations of natural occurrences within everyday life, my work proposes the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanisms. By re-contextualizing groups of objects and by recreating imagery from books, I disrupt conventional readings, suggesting poetic ensembles ranging from the personal to the universal (in terms of how data is circulated in a number of institutions such as school, library, church, academia, gallery and museum)’.
About Terra: Extremitas:
"I am extremely pleased to collaborate with FoolishPeople for the Terra Meta Event. Originally a solo project ‘The Secret School’ was located in a World War II bomb shelter in London, and will evolve within the dialect of The Fiction in 'Terra: Extremitas'. The installation will manifest itself as an interactive montage of artifacts derived from the Greek myth which debunks the credibility of historical discourses. It acts as an ‘esoteric’ space which has a fictional attribute and apocalyptic knowledge only for those who allow themselves to be rescued within it. 'The Secret School' will co-exist as the Last Church within the narrative."
"The Secret School is where the only essence left of faith fights for its survival in the last human hearts...The holy order of the Heavenly Pleroma has come to the BulkHead." John Harrigan
James Curcio on his work for Terra.
"This is a sneak peek at the soundtrack that will be used in a performance at Terra Extremitas, put on by the Foolish People. The script and soundtrack are based on some of the eschatological themes in Fallen Nation, and will serve as a bridge between that and a future project with the Foolish People, and many other creatives you may or may not have heard of…"
This is a special, supplemental edition of The Gspot, following up on the conversation Wes Unruh had with John Harrigan on episode 36 a few days ago. With a preview of some music from the upcoming live event, this half-hour podcast exposes you to the first echoes of the fiction as it seeps backward from the event horizon of August 6th - 10th.
'Judgement Day' Preview for 'Terra: Extremitas'
Yiri T. Kohl was born on a Thursday at 3.21 in 1975. He had several concussions when he was a kid and has been acting strangely ever since. At the age of five, he committed to being an artist, much to his parents' delight. Apart from drawing, painting, writing and acting, Yiri also developed skills of poetry, of sleeping with his eyes open, and the engineering of imagery using pen, paper, canvas & pain(t).
Before the age of fifteen, Yiri already lost most of his family, either through disease or in bizarre accidents. As an einzelganger, he really appreciates the very few that are left. Apart from that, he prefers to live in seclusion, though he has a serious soft spot for cats.
After meeting FoolishPeople in 2007, his life significantly improved. However, in between projects, he still dreaded returning to his cozy little hell-hole in the Netherlands. In January 2008 he encountered comic artist Maggie de Heer, with whom he shares his life with ever since. Together, they more or less manage a world on ongoing projects, an Amsterdam apartment, and two cats. And couldn't be happier.
http://yiri.nl
http://xs4all.nl/~shintaro
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