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Photographs from the End of the Earth

The photographs of 'Terra:Extremitas' taken by the talented Cecile Mella can now be viewed in our Online Gallery. They capture the unique experience of the End of the Earth for everyone who attended, participated and created art.

Featuring 'The Nursery' installation by Ilse Versluijs

Performer: Lucy Allin

Featuring 'The Heteroclite' by Jonas Ranson

Featuring 'The Secret School' installation by Christina Mitrentse

Performer: Tereza Kamenicka

In Acknowledgement

FoolishPeople would like to say thank you to the following people for their hard work and devotion to the project. Each of you have played a significant role in manifesting 'Terra:Extremitas' and it has been a pleasure to work with you all.

Our hosts: Everyone who works at the PickUpClub and the NDSM-werf, especially Marc Koolen and Eric Bijleveld.

Our sponsors: comic store Lambiek, uitgeverij Oog & Blik, stripblad De Inktpot and BeamSystems.

Our supporters both emotionally and financially: Yolanda Jesse, Larry Bath, Greet Berkhof, Elly Jesse, Fred Kohl, Felix Mensingh, Stripmakersforum, Joyce, Finn, Gage and Karen Harrigan, Helen and Peter Allin, Michiel Mensingh, Maud Bredius & Vittoria Russo.

All the participants who helped create the world of Terra: Extremitas: Doug O'Neil, Philippe Garcesto, Chrisitan Patracchini, Richard Webb, Christina Mitrentse, Jonas Ranson, Spax, Wes Unruh, Joseph Matheny, James Curcio, P Emerson Williams, Sonica Storm, Ikipr, Teresa Donohoe, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Skratte, Michiel Mensingh, Samm Hain, Reinhard Schleining, Ilse Versluijs, Pieter van Oudheusden, Maarten Gerritsen, Joshua Peeters, Alice Kok, Albo Helm, Peter Moerenhout, Mattt Baaij, Stephan Brusche, Swahili, Sandra Kleine Staarman & Pepijn Schermer.

Our wonderful photographer: Cecile Mella

The free roaming fools of Terra:Extremitas: Daniel Rakish, Ulf & Nina Boas.

The other free roaming performers: Nathaniel J. Harris, Jasmine, Anton & Perdita. 

James Curcio would like to thank the following people for their contribution to 'Darkness to Light/Light to Darkness': Jason Stackhouse, John Harrigan, P. Emerson Williams (Choronzon), Scott Landes, Jon Siren, Marz233 and the 233project.

Teresa Donohoe would like to thank: Apjiw, Moabi and Ocosi for their contribution to her sound pieces.

To all the members of FoolishPeople who have been central in developing the event: Lucy Allin, Yiri T. Kohl, Maggie de Heer, Victoria Karlsson, Tereza Kamenicka and Claire Tregellas.

And finally to the man who created this place (T:E): John Harrigan.

Bast: Soft, velvet, pounding, prowling the bounds. 

Dyl: Shifting the patterns of belief so the tide flows our way. 

asmadai: The fire in our blood.

Lilith: Glorious mother, sharing her archetypes with us.

Dionysus: Sharing the wine of creative delirium with us.

Ganesh: Holding the pillars of our narrative and removing obstacles.

Moon: Showering us with the mysteries, bestowing your beauty upon us. 

The beast of the FP egregore, becoming the God Zero.

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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- John Harrigan

John Harrigan (a.k.a. asmadai) is a writer, director, performer, founder of FoolishPeople and the Weaponized Art Movement, but beyond anything is a Magus.

Past productions and events have been shown in central London, across England and America. Most recently at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where 'Dead Language' was featured in the Times and The London Paper's top events and included in London Lates season of cultural events. He has also been awarded the Magi of Trygonia by the Dionysion Underground for his outstanding work in 'Dark Nights of the Soul', a thirteen month long performance ritual which was manifested at the Horse Hospital.

John lectures part time for the University of Hertfordshire and has run workshops in myth and magick for BBC Blast, Treadwells  and the ICA.

John is working on his first feature film which shoots in Prague in 2009.

Director's notes:

"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."

John Lawrence Harrigan
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04:12- 28/07/08

"Fiction is the road to Heaven.The above place, where we all become a hyper-dimensional art work. Watching the page turn below us; flat and minute. Yet so perfect. Eternal vision of a new thing of us and outside of us. Far inside, deep away in the light of glory.

Forever World. Forever Universe. Forever Fiction.

This is how we live."

John Harrigan, 'Terra:Extremitas' August 2008

Terra:Extremitas- Lucy Allin

Lucy graduated from the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where she majored in dancing and acting, and had a fascination with choreographing dances using Ancient Greek mythology and literature as inspiration. As she grew up, she performed in too many productions, ballets and musicals to mention, though found her home and became a permanent member of FoolishPeople at the start of 2006.

Her debut performance with FoolishPeople was in 'Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle III- Emergence' and shortly after she started producing and co-curating FP events and performances. Since then, she has assisted John in facilitating workshops for different clients, whilst developing and performing in all their current and future projects and writing her own poetry.

''For me, 'Terra:Extremitas' has been one of our most challenging productions yet, in terms of balancing the producing, performance and my own art within the piece. It is the first time I have used my choreography and dancing skills within an FP performance; which is ironic as dancing was always my strength before I started working with John as a director, and now I feel it is the opposite way round. I feel extremely privileged that John writes me such incredible roles, commits so much energy into getting me there and has chosen to share his life with me. He has taught me such a unique approach to performance and life; one rehearsal period for example taught me more than years of acting lessons. Don't be mistaken that he writes me such roles because he shares his life with me- it took more than blood, sweat and tears to get to this place and no-one else apart from John has poured more into FP than myself.

For 'Terra: Extremitas', I manifest the Queen of Fiction. I have to say, I've enjoyed working with our group of performers the most of any previous production, and I love the fact our roles shift and change every run, while still retaining such a deep connection to each other. The biggest challenge for me has been exploring dancing skills that have been dormant for three years in a safe way. This has been somewhat successful apart from falling on my head last night on a concrete floor! However, I found a new dimension to the Queen in this state, which had far greater rewards than pain endured!"

Terra:Extremitas- Tereza Kamenicka

Originally from the Czech Republic, Tereza Kamenicka was classically trained in theatre and started her career performing in various companies based in Prague. She has worked with theatre ensembles such as Theatre on the Balustrade (Divadio na Zabradli), Theatre Pribram, Theatre Vitezslava, The Music Theatre of Karlovy Vary (Karlovarske Hudebni Divadlo), and Theatre Reznicka (Divadlo v Reznicke).

She has been a permanent member of FoolishPeople since the start of 2006, performing in 10 productions, overseeing costume design in selected projects and has a central role in developing our work within Prague.

Image of Ammit- 'Desecration'

Terra:Extremitas- Sonica Storm

Born in Sweden, Victoria Karlsson graduated from Central Saint Martin with a BA (Hons) in Arts & Design in 2005. Victoria has worked as a Sound Designer for several live art events, including FoolishPeople's performance of Dead Language at the ICA and Desecration, a performance over 5 levels in the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham while also pursuing her own work. Although constantly exploring different approaches to sound art and design, Victoria finds working with live performance / art extremely challenging and rewarding. She met FoolishPeople when she collaborated with them on their first Meta Event 'Terra Incognita' in March 2007 and has since become a valued member and one of their main performers.

Sonica Storm will be creating and designing WraithLand within Terra: Extremitas.

About Vicky's work:

"Working somewhere between music and sound art, I'm interested in the emotional properties of everyday sounds, music and noise, and also in what happens when things are taken out of context, to be put into one another, or to stand on their own."

myspace.com/SonicaStorm

Comic about Terra:Extremitas

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:

Peek

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…"