
***Be a hero!
AV Performance
Duration: 25 min.
Saturday, 24 September 2011 | 22:30 > 23:00 2011-09-24T22:30:00.000Z | LOFT CAFE
1) Find spam e-mail and read it into a mike. 2) Stuff text into a digital voice recognition program. 3)
Compile, cut up, accumulate, shuffle, reshuffle, degenerate, add, subtract, disorient.
jeanfrançois and jérôme Blanquet are the radical spin doctors of misinformation. In their version of
modern dystopia, the mechanisms of viral infection create a blitzkrieg of verbal soundbytes and
subliminal video.
These sensory games of millenial madness translate into slippery meaning, layers of connotation and
denotation, a myriad of compressed verbal information and mixed intention. Burroughs for the digital
age... This is time, in terms of a friendly spam e-mail, to "Be a Hero."
Compile, cut up, accumulate, shuffle, reshuffle, degenerate, add, subtract, disorient.
jeanfrançois and jérôme Blanquet are the radical spin doctors of misinformation. In their version of
modern dystopia, the mechanisms of viral infection create a blitzkrieg of verbal soundbytes and
subliminal video.
These sensory games of millenial madness translate into slippery meaning, layers of connotation and
denotation, a myriad of compressed verbal information and mixed intention. Burroughs for the digital
age... This is time, in terms of a friendly spam e-mail, to "Be a Hero."
Author
- jérôme and jeanfrançois Blanquet convey their experiences into a noisy and abstract live art project
liberated from conventional audivisual constraints: DEMOLECULARISATION.
DEMOLECULARISATION explores the live action, questionning the possibilities of an audiovisual syntax.
The devising sources are not pre-recorded, everything is entirely created in live.
Larsen and feedback effects through self-modified devices are very often at the heart of the devising
process.
The duo plays with the technical constraints of the machines up to...