Gary Indiana on Andy Warhol
by Travis Jeppesen on November 11, 2009
Read Gary Indiana’s essay on Andy Warhol — surely one of the best things ever written about Warhol — here.
Company Fuck tonight at SLUM
by Travis Jeppesen on November 11, 2009
Tonight at SLUM, the weekly anti-art salon I co-curate with Tennessee Claflin, we’re proud to present a performance by Company Fuck.
Company Fuck (Australia)
Company Fuck is a one-man noisecore karaoke explosion. CxFx works in his own distinctive sonic territory combining extreme vocal improvisation, digital noise, hacked electronics, and deliberate musical homage/parody. With no allegiance to one sound or scene, CxFx simultaneously plunders pirated pop music whilst also blowing apart the formulas of so-called ‘underground’ genres. CxFx often sounds like one man conjuring a million artists together for a bloody entangled mess of manic audio intercourse and copyright infringement. Nobody is safe from the CxFx treatment.
CxFx is known for his brutal and unpredictable live shows, which has found audiences strangely entertained on tours all over Europe and Australia. Sure, CxFx uses a laptop, but any similarity to other computer musicians stops there. In performance CxFx is a totally improvised wireless noise monster, able to fast-forward through an entire rainbow of musical styles with every electrified scream, grunt, cough, or spit. In his own unique way, CxFx transforms the stage into a hyper-violent karaoke bar of the future – and he may even persuade the audience to sing along.
Currently based in Germany, CxFx is arguably one of Australia’s most successful experimental music exports in recent years.
http://www.companyfuck.com
http://www.myspace.com/companyfuck
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Company Fuck (Australien)
Company Fuck ist eine Einmann-Noisecore-Karaokeexplosion. CxFx arbeitet mit Stimmimprovisation, digitalem Noise und Musical-Homage/Parodien in seinem ganz eigenen ausgeprägten Schalluniversum. Ohne Treue zu einem bestimmten Sound oder Szene, plündert CxFx Popmusik und vernichtet gleichzeitig die Regeln des so genannten Undergrounds: “Eine Million Musiker zusammengeführt für ein blutiges durcheinander an manischem Geschlechtsverkehr und Copyright-Verletzungen”.
Company Fuck ist in ganz Europa und Australien bekannt für seine brutalen und unberechenbaren Konzerte, die auf mehreren Tourneen ein verwirrt/amüsiertes Publikum zurückgelassen haben. Zwar verwendet CxFx einen Laptop, steht aber im absoluten Gegensatz zu anderen Computermusikern: Verwandelt als Wireless-Improvisations-Monster – fähig mit jedem Schrei einen Wolkenbruch von Musikstilen auf sein Publikum loszulassen – transformiert CxFx die Bühne zu einer gnadenlosen Karaokebar aus der Zukunft.
Momentan in Deutschland lebend, zählt CxFx zu den erfolgreichsten Experimentalmusikern aus Australien der letzten Jahre.
TONIGHT at Ficken3000
Urbanstr. 70
Berlin
Doors open at 22:00
Nan Goldin in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 28, 2009
“As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs.”
My review of Nan Goldin’s current Berlin exhibition is now online at Artforum.
Memory Glyphs
by Travis Jeppesen on October 21, 2009
My review of Memory Glyphs, a recent anthology of Romanian prose poetry, is now online at 3ammagazine.com.
The Suiciders excerpt
by Travis Jeppesen on October 18, 2009
An excerpt from my novel-in-progress, The Suiciders, is now online at 3ammagazine.com.
Mat Collishaw
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2009
“Now that postmodernism is beginning to appear an almost retro stance, it is artists like Collishaw, who interrogates histories through the disparate prisms of technologies recent and refurbished, that demonstrate how to make it new in even newer ways.”
My review of Mat Collishaw’s current Berlin solo exhibition is now online at Artforum.
Christian Siekmeier interview
by Travis Jeppesen on October 14, 2009
“Exile has per its name no real stable home. It is a fluctuant space that can (and will if conditions change) move to anywhere else in the world where the necessary conditions are more fertile.”
My interview with Exile Projects founder Christian Siekmeier is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Christophe Chemin screening tomorrow night in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 13, 2009
TOMORROW @ SLUM
At the next SLUM, we are pleased to announce that we will be screening rare early films of Christophe Chemin. This is meant to coincide with the current exhibition of Christophe, “Rats & Children,” at the RISE Gallery here in Berlin — if you haven’t been yet, we strongly recommend checking this show out.
Christophe Chemin is also known as the co-star of Bruce Labruce’s “Otto; or, Up With Dead People!” He designed the sets and costumes for the play “Daddy” by Travis Jeppesen, which premiered at the HAU Theater in June under the direction of Ron Athey. Chemin is currently in post-production for a feature film he directed that will be premiered later this month at the Jack Smith Festival.
SLUM – every Wednesday at
Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70, Berlin
Doors open at 22:00.
GG Allin Hails a Cab
by Travis Jeppesen on October 9, 2009
A Youtube short story on 3ammagazine.com.
Ricarda Roggan
by Travis Jeppesen on October 7, 2009
My review of Ricarda Roggan’s current Berlin show is now online at Artforum.
