TRANCEFORMATION OF VIOLENCE

A GUIDE TO VOODOO-PERFORMANCE

Watch out! You might get what you´re after. Watch your Step! There might be holes on the stage. abysses of jealousy and perfidy. the floor we are walking on is a fragile surface. It´s the seperator between good and bad, top or flop, in and out, dead or alive. Most white-middle-class-girls and boys don´t realize: bild, deaf and tomb concerning the dark side of performance, they´re maybe in the performance-zone- but never able to see the real performance. It´s Voodoo-time, baby! But not being aware of holes does not protect you from stepping into them- and that´s bad bad bad. another weak and pale performance-zombie. to show your performative strength, your PERFORMANCE POWER: first look intensly at the floor. Concentrate. Watch. AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! Repeat this--- AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! Now your eyes are open. you see one to five holes on stage. Some people in the audience are responsible for them. there are evil spirits. They wait for you to step into a hole- but you don´t. you see it, you are cat-eyed- - - you walk towards the hole - fleet-foaded, clever and with pleasure you avoid the trap - - - one after the other – each time you outwit your grudger, you donate a big SMILE to him/her. A BIG BIG BIG SMILE. You got the power. You are the performer. AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! Like a crocodile in the sun you show your teeth. Your smile is a bite. Your smile is a slap right-in-the-face. You are AME ZANGBêTô! You call the spirits of the suffragettes who invented performance art, you are the sister of marina abramovic, you are an african vampirette, you are yoko onos brother. You are AME ZANGBêTô! Cursed and proud, stinky and loud! Tit-prints are part of art, your tits are art, your ass is art: prost! You already reached the next level, you are a top-drawer: COU-COU BANBA, you got your sacrifices prepared, COU COU BANBA, the rhythm starts. The beat is happening – right inside of me. COU COU BANBA. You need fellowship? You feel the energy emerging – you HAVE company! Uuuups- a hole again. SMILE. BIG SMILE. BIG BIG SMILE. Crocodile Dundee. YIP! You make a little jig. And another one. Just for the show. Just for you and me and everybody we know and we will never meet again. Just for this special moment which is already history. BAéROUé is now with you. The power of love, the power of destruction, it´s a blink, the heartbeat of a butterfly- it´s a bring-in, not a take-away. BAéROUé ASSIEOUSSIRE. You are vegetarian and asked the cameraman for help and he brought the chicken-bones from last night´s family dinner. You have your props prepared. You share your intoxicants with the audience. You are the master of ceremonies. You share the ticket to eye of the hurricane. Wodka is the lubricant. The audience becomes plushed- the rhythm becomes trance. The chicks start to dance themselves to death. Your edges begin to blurr. BAéROUé! BAéROUé! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! AME ZANGBêTô! Anat is jerking, faustine is frothing, melissa is the house and alex is on the roof, merché is cross-eyed. WE FORGOT THE EGGS! WHERE ARE THE EGGS? WE HAD TO CRUSH THE EGGS ON OUR FOREHEADS. We take the eggs out of the hole- we mash them on our heads, the yolk tastes sweet. The necklace of chicken-bones dangles around our necks. We fetch the capes and are ready for the grande FINALE: COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI COMIEN GOUGNON AYI

about voodoo and chanel: a voodoofesto

VOODOO CHANEL IS POST POST COLONIAL
VOODOO CHANEL TAKES AWAY THE FALSE PROMISE OF EQUALITY AND HUMANISM
THE VALUESYSTEM IS A LADDER TO POWER
BRANDS AND CONSUMERISM ARE STEPS ON THIS LADDER TO STEP UP TO A MORE POWERFUL POSITION
VOODOO CHANEL IS THIS LADDER

MODIFYING THE ACTUAL BRAND AND CHANGING THE BRAND CONTENT MAKES THIS LADDER LEAD TO A DIFFERENT DESTINATION
TO A DIFFERENT PLATEU THEN WHAT CHANEL HAS TO OFFER,
IT`S CHANGING THE MOUNTAIN YOU ARE CLIMBING UP
THE POWER OF THE BRAND IS SUVBVERSIVE BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY CHANGING THE VISION OF WHAT THE TOP IS - AND WHERE THE GOAL IS.
VOODOO CHANEL IS OPTIMIZING THE ORIGINAL BRAND BY CLIMBING THE SOCIAL UPGRADE WITH SELF-MADE STRATEGIES
VOODOO CHANEL ADAPTS FASTER THE HIPSTER STREET STYLES
VOODOO CHANEL : 180 % EMANCIPATION
VOODOO CHANEL IS FREEING YOU FINANCIALLY FROM THEIR PRICING SYSTEM
THE QUALITY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
VOODOO CHANEL IS STEALING MARKET POWER THAT HAS BURNED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO CREATE
VOODOO CHANEL SMELLS OF ANARCHY
VOODOO CHANEL IS THE NEW STRATEGY OF SELF REPRESENTATION NOT BY A GIVEN BRAND; IT IS THE SYMBOLIC GESTURE OF RECLAIMING POWER
VOODOO CHANEL IS THERE FOR YOU IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION TO SOCIALLY AND POLTICALLY STEP UP.
VOODOO CHANEL IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR OWN FATE
VOODOOC CHANEL SHOWS YOU THAT JUST PAYING FOR A BRAND AND WEARING IT LOOKS LIKE A SOCIAL FAILURE YOU´RE COVERING UP.
VOODOO CHANEL TAKING THE GLAM OF A BRAND AND THE MARKET POWER THAT ALREADY EXISTS AROUND IT ADDING THE PERSONAL AND SUBERSIVE ENERGY CONNECTED MORE TO THE ACTUAL PRODUCERS OF THE PRODUCT .
VOODOO CHANEL IS STEALING CHANEL FROM THE CORPORATE OFFICES IN PARIS, LONDON, NEW YORK.
VOODOO CHANEL - INTELLIGENT PEOPLE CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT BUYING VOODOO CHANEL : YOU´RE NOT PART OF WHAT IS MAKING THE WORLD THE SAME EVERYWHERE

VOODOO CHANEL DID A BIG FAVOUR TO CHANEL BY ADDING LIFE TO THE DUSTY FLAVOUR OF DECADENCE.
VOODOO CHANEL IS NOT A COUNTERFIT, IT´S BENEFIT
VOODOO CHANEL DISCREDITS OTHER WAYS OF STEPPING UP THE LADDER OF IMPORTANCE AND POWER BY PAYING LOW PRiCES FOR THE COUNTERFIT MADE-IN-CHINA-LUIS-VUITTON-HERMÉ-BAGS, BECAUSE BY THIS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM OF KEEPING THE POOR POOR AND THE RICH RICH.

VOODOO CHANEL IS A COLLECTIVE WORK, THE SHIPPING IS A JPEG.
FROM INTERNET CAFE TO OFFICES TO INTERNET CAFES, PEOPLE ARE JOINING THE GROWING NETWORK


VOODOO CHANEL SAYS: UPGRADE YOURSELF TO FIRST CLASS AND DONT FORGET THE MAGIC POWDER.

GIRL MONSTER # 10: COMING OUT OF THE CAGE

YIP: LEZZIES ON ECSTASY!!!! what a night, what a concert! LOVE!!!

GIRL MONSTER # 10: COMING OUT OF THE CAGE

Djana Covic combines hate-yoga with her own version of christina aguilera´s "beautiful". wow. more of that!

GIRL MONSTER # 10: COMING OUT OF THE CAGE

Kr66t Juurak and Corinna Korth performing YOUR NAME DROPS ARE SECOND HAND - A PERFORMANCE FOR URBAN FOXES. got it??

GIRL MONSTER # 10: COMING OUT OF THE CAGE

Fahim Amir gives lecture about urban animals. He´s a real discours-machine! no stopping!

GIRL MONSTER # 10: COMING OUT OF THE CAGE

CORINNA KORTH AND KR66T JUURAK WELCOME THE AUDIENCE FOR GIRL MONSTER # 10 at Kampnagel theater in hamburg

NEW SONG: LISTEN, LOVE, DOWNLOAD

Download this unreleased recording of Chicks On Speed, grab it here:::

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4302/



Hear an as yet unreleased song, "Lovebites", performed by Nadine Jessen, Melissa Logan and Shaggy Sharoof produced by Dirty Disko Youth from Hamburg and Champy Kilo from Abidjan.

The collaborating artists on the song will be coming to Berlin and Hamburg in the autumn to perform at festival Rue Princesse, a project produced by Monika Gintersdorfer.

Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2 - 4 September 2010; Hamburg Kampnagel, 7- 9 October 2010.

e-shoe guitar by chicks on speed

have a look here:

Chicks on Speed: Don’t Art, Fashion, Music 4 June – 8 August @ Dundee Contemporary Arts Opening

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Chicks on Speed and the e-shoe

Dear Shaded Viewers,

You are getting a look at the first wireless High heeled shoe guitar, made in collaboration with Siberian born shoe designer Max Kibardin and Hangar.org. The shoes will be unveiled alongside Chicks on Speed's collection of self made 'Objekt Instruments"- Cigar Box Synthesizers, super suits' with sewn-in body sensors that trigger audio/video samples, 2 hats made in collaboration with Christophe Coppins and Hangar.org, based on illuminated drawings of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th century Christian mystic who received visions, composed ethereal airs, performed healing and even founded covents. The hats transmit the utterances of their wearers by way of microphones and speakers: the contemporary beatified woman can amass her own power tools, or so it seems.

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http://www.dca.org.uk/

http://www.chicksonspeed.com/

Chicks on Speed present: GIRL MONSTER 10: Coming out of the cage

10th girl monster in hamburg feat. LESBIANS ON ECSTASY, FAHIM AMIR, CORINNA KORTH, KROOT JUURAK AND DJANA COVIC, HOST: MELISSA LOGAN, BAR-TENDERS: ANDRASKI, ANNA, ADSDS, Music: ABIDJANINSKI, FOTOS: MARC ALEXANDER, Table-Dance: SEBASTIANO + SAMI, MASSAGE: SUPERSYL alias MICHELLE, TECHNIK: MÜGGE + HOLLY !!!!!!!!!

GIRL MONSTER # 9: genius inventor goddess

YIP YIP! Girl Monster # 9: GENIUS INVENTOR GODDESS:: Die Chicks on Speed kuratieren die feministisch-explosive Mischung aus Performance, Video, Theorie, Musik, Unterhaltung und Action! Diesmal gekrönt durch die Performance INTEGRATION: IMPOSSIBLE von Tanja Ostojic. Die serbische Künstlerin verursachte einen handfesten Kunstskandal mit einer Persiflage auf Courbets URSPRUNG DER WELT – ihrem Beitrag zur Werbung für die Österreichische EU-Präsidentschaft. Mit ihren kompromisslosen Arbeiten kommentiert sie das Machtgefälle zwischen Mann und Frau und zwischen der „alten“ und der „neuen“ EU.

Außerdem: Videoscreening, kuratiert von Margit Czenki, feministische Filmemacherin, Aktivistin und Künstlerin. Und: Den musikalischen Soundtrack liefert die Berliner Techno-Legende DJ Aroma mit MC Quio, die in ihren Live-Sets Techno-Sounds, House und live-Elemente zu einem unvorhersehbaren Ganzen vermischt.

ALLES DAS AM 20.3. / 20:30 h / Kampmagel / DON´T MISS!!!!!!

Über Tanja Ostojic: Tanja Ostojic

* 1972 in Jugoslawien; M.A. der Kunstakademie Belgrad, 1998, und der École Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (F). Ostojić ist eine Nomadin, die in Europa als unabhängige und interdisziplinäre Performance-Künstlerin lebt. Sie untersucht soziale Konfigurationen und Machtverhältnisse und setzt sich selbst als Figur in situationistischen Performances ein und nutzt als Medien Anzeigen, Videos, Fotos, Flyer, Poster, Internet, Installationen, Workshops und Bücher. Sie ist eine der GründerInnen der unabhängigen Künstlervereinigung Remont in Belgrad.

und hier: ein video von das beckwerk

sorry, a little history correction: Suffragettes invented performance art

look at this: for some f*** reason i cannot upload the video.
but if you go to you tube and search for SUFFRAGETTES INVENTED PERFORMANCE ART
you will find an excellent 4 min lecture by leslie hill.
do it, love it, spread it



TOP 10 OF PERFORMANCE-ART STEREO TYPES

BY LESLIE HILL

1. PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ARE PERPETUALLY NAKED

2. PERFORMANCE-PIECES ARE NECESSARILY FILLED WITH EFFLUVIA

3. PERFORMERS ARE EITHER GAY MEN, STRAIGHT WOMEN, LESBIANS, WOMEN OF COLOUR, MEN OF COLOUR, UNEMPLOYED NORTHERN-IRISH-SINGLE-PARENT-COAL-MINERS OR OTHERWISE OPPRESSED MINORITY

4. PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ARE EITHER SMART OR SMART ASSES

5. PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ARE SELF-INDULGENT

6. PERFORMANCE ART IS PROBABLY POLITICAL, EVEN IF NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND IT

7. SOLO PERFORMANCE WORK IS USUALLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL (A LOGICAL PROGRESSION OF 3 + 5) AND IS FREQUENTLY SELF-WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PERFORMED

8. PERFORMANCE-ART EVENTS WILL BE ADVERTISED USING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING ADJECTIVES: ´CUTTING EDGE´, ´GROUND-BREAKING´, ´ICONOCLASTIC´, ´UNCOMPROMISING´, ´HARD HITTING´, ´CONTEMPORARY´ AND/OR ´IN YOUR FACE´

9. A WIG ON THE HEAD OF A PERFORMANCE ARTIST IS A PROP, NOT A COSTUME

10. WITHIN ANY GIVEN PERFORMANCE PIECE, MEANING WILL BE DECONSTRUCTED FASTER THAN IT IS CONSTRUCTED, THEREBY LEAVING THE AUDIENCE IN DEFICIT BY THE END OF THE PIECE