Invocation to my demon brother
AV Performance
Duration: 20 min.
Friday, 21 September 2007 | 00:00 > 00:30 2007-09-22T00:00:00.000Z | STAGE 1
A tribute to Kenneth Anger and to the occult instigation of antisocial behaviours.
Following V.Vale thought, a prank can be defined as an invocation to imagination, poetic landscape, the unexpected, a deep level of irony and social criticism. If great pranks create synaesthestesic experiences based on exciting, original and reverberating perfomances, then those criteria can be easily applied to the practice of backmasking. This media jamming involves the action of producing a subliminal message which can be heard by slowing or accelerating a record or spinning it at its contrary. Back masking is done for different purposes but especially to tease the music market and to pump paranoia in the fears of religious fanatists. If we consider its penetration into commercial music production and distribution, we can define it the as one of the last expressions of XX century Pop Art. We recently had been able to slide inside a back masking database of an italian integralist christian association who spent ages to cathalogue every backmasked track. We descovered an incredible treasure of art fragments that we could not resist to steal and play with. We are dedicating this work, through its title, to Kenneth Anger, another visionary poet of incredibly strange culture and subliminal lover of chaos, in his crowliean floating period. Join us for a vynil travel into the darkest sides of pop culture. Celebrate Satan and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
"Invocation to my Demon Brother" had been presented as premiere at " Nacht Bar", the Berlin Porn Film Festival official Party. Two months later it had been coproduced and re-edited with the californian plagiarist group National Cynical Network and presented inside a bigger work called "Invocations" as american premiere inside their digital radio broadcast called: Plundercast.
Following V.Vale thought, a prank can be defined as an invocation to imagination, poetic landscape, the unexpected, a deep level of irony and social criticism. If great pranks create synaesthestesic experiences based on exciting, original and reverberating perfomances, then those criteria can be easily applied to the practice of backmasking. This media jamming involves the action of producing a subliminal message which can be heard by slowing or accelerating a record or spinning it at its contrary. Back masking is done for different purposes but especially to tease the music market and to pump paranoia in the fears of religious fanatists. If we consider its penetration into commercial music production and distribution, we can define it the as one of the last expressions of XX century Pop Art. We recently had been able to slide inside a back masking database of an italian integralist christian association who spent ages to cathalogue every backmasked track. We descovered an incredible treasure of art fragments that we could not resist to steal and play with. We are dedicating this work, through its title, to Kenneth Anger, another visionary poet of incredibly strange culture and subliminal lover of chaos, in his crowliean floating period. Join us for a vynil travel into the darkest sides of pop culture. Celebrate Satan and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
"Invocation to my Demon Brother" had been presented as premiere at " Nacht Bar", the Berlin Porn Film Festival official Party. Two months later it had been coproduced and re-edited with the californian plagiarist group National Cynical Network and presented inside a bigger work called "Invocations" as american premiere inside their digital radio broadcast called: Plundercast.
Author
- Parisian tenor Guy Flechter studied singing with Anna-Maria Bondi and since then has sung numerous roles both in France and further afield. Guy's most recent roles include Essex at the Liceu in Barcelona in Opera North's production of Britten's Gloriana; the Money Lender in The Miserly Knight (Rachmaninov) for Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon; Alessandro in Mozart's Il Re Pastore in Belgium and in concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Weill's Seven Deadly Sins with the Israel Chamber Orchestra; Berlioz'...
- Sociologist with a Master on Cultural Anthropology at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, Francesco WARBEAR Macarone Palmieri is an international stimulator of confrontation and deepenings in fields such as Urban Anthropology, Media Studies, Literature, art and Emotions sociology, Cultural Studies.
In the mid- nineties he starts to write for academic and independent Publishers and creates his own magazine entitled Torazine meanwhile organizing events about the same topics inside institutional and independent spaces in Italy.
In 2003 his first book... - Graduated in communication studies he started his artistic career in the field of underground comics becoming soon a digital artist and a schocking illustrator for two magazines, Torazine and Catastrophe.
He explored visual communication through the use of every possible language; comics, collage, painting, scanning, sculpture, poster art, motion graphics.
Nowadays he is totally involved in vjing and he is one of the most active member of FLxER Team, joining important musical events like Phag Off, Loaded,...