Heaven Street, Goat-Eater Arts and Feast of Hate and Fear present…
Disposable: Series One
THE SHOW
A collaborative art project between Anthony Mangicapra and Adel Souto, on display, one night only!
8pm on Saturday, June 23rd @ 184 Noll Street, in Brooklyn
$3 donation, as there will be live peformances by Hoor-paar-Kraat and 156, plus DJ sets by Ning Nong.
More info here.
As a fan of Christian Marclay, I thought I’d share with you some of his influences, such as the unbelievably-ahead-of-its-time LP by Milan Knízák, Broken Music.
Milan Knízák (1940 - ) is a Czechoslovakian artist, musician, theorist, and was an all around avant-garde thorn in the side of Eastern European Fascism and Communism, until its fall in the 1990s.
Knízák had organized Prauge’s first Fluxus concert, supposedly had a hand in helping VW with their engines, befriended and worked with such varied underground figures as Allen Ginsberg and Vienna Aktionist, Wolf Vostell, as well as being labeled “Enemy of the State” by his home country - all by age 30.
The LP I’m showcasing of in this post was recorded throughout the 70s, and released in 1979 by Berliner DAAD-Galerie for an exhibition entitled “Broken Music”, which was shown in Berlin. It was released as a limited, one-sided, flexi-disc, held in an artful 278 pages book, written in English, French and German, featuring essays by the curators Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier, philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, audio and visual artists László Moholy-Nagy, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Rudolf Zeller and, of course, Milan.
Here are the alpha and omega of this magnum opus:
Composition No. 1 (17 Mb @ 128Kbps)
Composition No. 5 (13 Mb @ 128Kbps)
In the Enochian system of magic, when you draw a sigil, you are communicating with a daemon, or “angelic spirit”.
Yesterday, for 12 hours, I guess I spoke with exactly 747 of them.
249 cards, each having a handwritten phrase on the reverse side. All of which will be left on NYC subway trains, throughout the month of June, before I leave on a July vacation to my hometown of Miami.
Speaking of which, I’ll be presenting director John Waters a work of mine, during his This Filthy World performance at Ft. Lauderdale, FL’s Parker Playhouse (July 28th).
George Junius Stinney Jr., born in October of 1929.
In March of 1944, at the age of 14, he was arrested for the murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames (ages 11 and 8). He was tried, convicted and executed within three months.
Stinney is the youngest person ever executed in the 20th Century United States.
Thanks, South Carolina!
Researchers think they have come across the world’s oldest graphic image in a cave (pictured below), in the south of France, dating the piece to 35,000 BCE. The rock shelter is at a site called Abri Castanet, which is in the Vézère River valley.
New York University anthropologist Randall White believes, as do other teams of researchers, that it is of a female vulva.
7 song, stenciled CDr / 3 film, stenciled DVDr, with 6 index placards. Individually handwritten layouts, and spray-painted covers. All within white, double disc, DVD cases.
Only 33 copies.
Find ‘em, if you can.
I hung out with Peter Sotos this past week, so I thought I’d school those who aren’t in-the-know.
Peter Sotos (April 1960 - ) was born in Chicago, and while attending the Art Institute of Chicago began working on his first, and most infamous work, Pure Magazine. He was arrested while working on issue three, in 1984, as the magazine was viewed as child pornography. The charges were later dropped, but Sotos was still charged (and is the first American to ever be charged) with possession of child pornography.
In 1992 he was asked to join the power electronics outfit Whitehouse, and made the United Kingdom home from then until 2002, when he returned to Chicago.
Sotos has released several books (Total Abuse, Tick, Lazy, Proxy, etc), which have drawn him equal acclaim and hatred.
The link below is to a file which contains both issue one and two of Pure.
Pure 1 & 2 (13 Mb PDF)
In one of the most hilarious 911 phone calls I have ever heard, Michigan police officer Colonel Edward Sanchez explains he has just eaten from a batch of brownies he had baked with his wife, which contained about a quarter ounce of weed.
He thinks he is dying, yet wants to know the score of a Red Wings game? Nice.
Prepare to laugh at a very stupid piggy…
“Send help, I think I’m dead.” (842 Kb mp3 @ 24Kbps)
When the officer came down, he was allowed to quit the force without being charged, even though he admitted to obtaining the marijuana by stealing it from a suspect.
My favorite planet is Saturn. Though I don’t believe in astrology, it could be its connection to death and destruction, or the celebration of the Saturnalia (December 17th - 23rd) for Dionysus (Bacchus).
So, when the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Receptor picked up sounds from Saturn, I was mystified.
In the first link, the CRPWR has picked up lightning inside of Saturn’s atmosphere. The lightning-related radio emissions cover a broad range of frequencies, and last only about one-thirtieth of a second. The CRPWR recorded a strong thunderstorm beginning on January 23, 2006, the radio emissions appear as speckles at random frequencies normally above 2 MHz.
Saturn’s lightning (220 Kb wav file)
Next, we find that Saturn itself is a source of intense radio emissions of electrostatic discharges, with rising and falling tones, very similar to Earth’s auroral radio emissions. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near Saturn’s poles, and are similar to Earth’s northern and southern lights. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting the following radio emissions on April of 2002.
Saturn’s polar radio emissions (720 Kb wav file)
In this last file, we can hear another clip of the electrostatic discharges from the April 2002 recording, where we find a very complicated interaction between waves in Saturn’s radio source region, though it is an interaction which has also been observed on Earth.
Saturn’s polar radio emissions (130 Kb wav file)
