Buddhism Art Dance (Thien Thu Thien Nhan)


From the video:

"This is the Chinese Disabled Performing Arts Troupe (they are deaf). I got this from my grand-ma. I found it very beautiful & interesting. She told me it took them over 10 whole years to get to such a high level of perfection."

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Worms
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This experimental underground music video shows debutant singer Lolly Jane Blue on her way down the earth layers; a journey leading to a swirling underwater climax.

www.silvanderwoerd.com - video director
www.lollyjaneblue.com - singer songwriter.

Tiffa Novoa 1975-2007 Costume Designer, Performance Artist.

Tiffa was not just a fashion designer, she invented an entire aesthetic style. She was not just one of the founding members of a notorious performance troupe, she helped to create an entire subculture.

She wasn’t just a visionary artist, she was a force of nature whose ripple effects inspired, and will continue to inspire, her closest friends and countless, thousands, of people who are likely not even aware that this is the woman responsible for their inspiration.

El Circo [is credited] with creating the postapocalyptic fashions that many now associate with Burning Man. Most of the original El Circo fashions, which convey both tribalism and a sense of whimsy, were designed by member Tiffa Novoa, who has since hit it big with her Onda Designs.

Tiffa Novoa, the legendary Bali based mind behind fine and exotic couture was teamed up with Evan Sugarman to form the now infamous fashion system, ERNTE Fashion Systems.

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An Example of Her Work

An Interview with Dayna McLeod

Dayna McLeod is a Montréal-based performance artist and video maker… and she’s very funny. Winner of many prizes and awards, her work speaks to the masses with rare and powerful humour rooted in visionary feminist politics. It’s very likely that you’ve seen Dayna, but didn’t even know it: she embodies her message everywhere and in every way–from her infamous Santa Beaver to her newer (picture on the right) Monarchy Mama–her art travels far and wide.



Monarchy Mama is an interactive, in-situ performance piece that pushes monarchial iconography beyond its limits of excess, gluttony, sexuality, and exploitation into the realm of absurd disgust. Entering the venue in a floor-length royal robe, I situate myself on a platform, stage, or pedestal that is easily accessible to the audience. Dramatically throwing the robe to the ground reveals a multi-mammaried body. Wearing a throat to crotch body suit made out of vinyl breasts, a regal Marie Antoinette wig, satin gloves, and royal jewels, my intention with this piece is to challenge an audiences' relationship to government, and the romance, sexualization, and fetishization of state and country. The audience will literally be able to "suckle at the teat of prosperity" as each breast is filled with vodka.

Interview by Mél Hogan for ArtThreat | Via

Before she says a word she's already demonstrated a feminist/political viewpoint. What a fabulously spirited performer!

Lucid Dream Lounge Presents The Plucker: A Book by Brom

The Plucker leaned down until its face hung a kiss away from Angel, peeled back its black lips, and exposed the most sincere smile its rotting teeth would allow. "You will be such a treat," it whispered.

The Plucker is a 160 page hardbound illustrated novel. Original story/artwork by Brom.

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Extra Action Marching Band

A 30 member musical performance group from Oakland/San Francisco recently left on a European tour leaving admirers and unwitting witnesses in their sequin-spewing wake.

Manifesto:
We, the EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND, shuffle, loiter, charge, and crawl around embracing our environment and quite frequently our audience. Defying categorization, this mutant lovechild of traditional peripatetic music and ecstatic turmoil consists of a hypnotic and driving drum section, a "smoking" horn line (w/a touch of sound effects), and is lead by a brutally sexy and provocative flag team. An Extra Action performance is a celebratory, transcendent spectacle that entices, amuses, arouses, and intoxicates the audience.

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Negativland's Mark Hosler (and Asheville area resident) talks about intellectual property, creativity and multimedia art

Viewed by some as artistic outlaws, Negativland are either the merry pranksters of music, or the monkey wrench gang of popular culture.

For almost 30 years, the group has created striking political statements via media collages--initially in the realms of music and live performance, and now also in the area of visual art, video, books and radio--appropriating sounds, imagery and text from other sources. This sometimes got the group into hot water.

Mark Hosler, de facto leader and spokesman for the group, visited Tucson this weekend with his multimedia lecture about Negativland and its activities. "Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland," was Friday night, April 13.

As the raw material for its singular art form, Negativland uses information and the ways of disseminating and manipulating information (media), the 45-year-old Hosler says in a telephone interview from his home outside Asheville, NC, where he had shared some of his artwork in February with the locals.

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Derailroaded: Inside The Mind Of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer is currently running on Sundance Channel.

Josh Rubin's strangely fascinating documentary parses the life of outsider musician Larry "Wild Man" Fischer. Growing up in the '50s, Fischer was an undiagnosed manic-depressive schizophrenic who, after attacking his mother with a knife, landed in a mental asylum.

Eventually he headed to California in the late '60s, where Frank Zappa discovered him singing his own strange compositions for a dime a song along Sunset Boulevard. In a strangulated growl somewhere between a possessed Tiny Tim and Bobcat Goldthwait, Fischer's music is something of an acquired taste. Zappa championed him and he led a convoluted career appearing on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and landing on the British Top 50 charts.

Derailroaded is interspersed with plenty of talking heads delivering anecdotes, as well as footage of Fischer performing, but ultimately this is a film not about music or fame, but about the ravages of mental illness. Despite many moments of levity—such as a completely bizarre re-enactment of an interview between Dr. Demento and Frank Zappa, done with puppets—it's a devastating portrait of delusion and fathomless despair.

You sure can see the Zappa influence but man, oh man, was the poor guy ever out there.

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Ninah Pixie is an experimental musician and force behind next weekend's "Women Take Back The Noise" event.

The three years in the making extravaganza is taking off like a house on fire.

UBUIBI presents a 3-day live experimental music series featuring a worldwide selection of female artists from the recently released Women Take Back The Noise compilation.

Each night of performance will focus on the themes from the 3-disc collection: ORGONAUTA, SCHEHERAZADE & VOCIFEROUS featuring works by the artists in their own unique style & interpretation, reflecting the mood of each theme. She's been so passionate and unwavering about this experimental music project that I expect we may one day say "I knew her when she was just starting out" and I couldn't be happier for her.

There's more at Women Take Back The Noise, Discogs, and Venues and Events.

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Puppetry Of The Genius

Of the Cinnamon Roll Gang, he claims, "It’s not high art; it’s nonsensical goofy-assed shit."

Marcel deJure, filmmaker, puppet master, and designer, was pleased when they resumed performing after a year-long hiatus. "It’s fun to be offensive and loud and vulgar and not make sense sometimes. I like freaking people out and making them laugh."

He also makes unique and functional handbags that would be fun to carry, although I can see my kids rolling their eyes this very moment.

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Diamanda Galás: Defixiones, Orders from the Dead.

A haunting work of mourning and catharsis, Galás commemorates victims of a long-forgotten Turkish ethnic cleansing. It premieres in New York City September 8 and 10, at 8pm, then begins a worldwide tour.

Iconoclastic vocalist, pianist, composer, and performance artist Diamanda Galás, returns to New York to perform her most ambitious and compelling work to date. An operatic, sacred mass, “Defixiones, Orders from the Dead” is a sweeping work of historical memory that excavates the Armenian, Assyrian, Anatolian, and Pontic Greek genocides that occurred between 1914 and 1923.

A 75-minute, highly theatrical spectacle scored for voice, piano and tape, Defixiones draws its name from the small lead charms engraved with curses and placed by relatives on graves throughout the Eastern Mediterranean to discourage desecration. Concerned with the poet/author living in exile-- away from their homeland or within it-- the work speaks for individuals who were treated and lived as outlaws, as Galás calls homosexuals,. Mostly composed by Galás herself, who drew from a wide range of sources, Defixiones is rooted in the rich musical worlds of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.

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N'Light'N Launch Party 3/26/05 Chapel of Sacred Mirrors


The audio experience, the choreography, the magnificent art. What an incredible event. Sure wish I could follow through on this invitation.... but do have some wonderful sites for you to peruse today. Reality Engine and ArcheDream. (URLS below.)
via: Blue Spectral Monkey @ touchsamadi from Asheville & NYC

Date & Time: 2005-03-26 10:00 PM
Location: N'Light'N Launch Party 3/26/05 Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, NYC

Reality Engine presents

N'Light'N Launch Party

Saturday - 03/26/05 - White Galactic Wind

Reality Engine in collaboration with CoSM invite you to a special private event, welcoming the spring and Easter with the N'Light'N opening at the Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors. Being already established as a meeting point for the visionary community, now it will also become a reference on the East Coast for upbeat down tempo and neo media gatherings.

This event is meant to uplift the awareness of collective consciousness through the multi-mediation of ego loss and ecstatic ritual process. Bringing together in celebration diverse communities committed to experience sacred sounds and images as pathways toward a return to a natural state of happiness.

With a performance by ArcheDream, an archetypal mask theatre company which uses ritual, movement and myth to present allegorical dramas. The inspiration for ArcheDream is derived from ancient rituals where the Devine mingled with Humankind. Their theatre uses various forms of dance, innovative music, multimedia projections, archetypal masks and costumes that are illuminated with ultra-violet light, accentuating the supernatural aspects to reveal the dreamscape as the action unfolds. ArcheDream is founded on the quality of the individual artist participating in a collaborative effort. This remains their ongoing quest as they merge creative forces with the Reality Engine crew and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors to " N'Light'N " through an original performance of ArcheDream, the Episode titled "5th Element." For more information please visit: www.archedream.com.

Special Performance by ArcheDream: "The 5th Element"

Upbeat Downtempo grooves by:

Blue Spectral Monkey (TouchSamadhi-Asheville-NC)

Alien Blue (CoSM - NY)

Matyas (Reality Engine)

Pedro (Reality Engine) +

Dan Covan

For more info log at http://realityengine.org
Online tickes http://cosm.org

Namaste,
Reality Engine Team.

May any merits created by or through this gathering be offered to the freedom of all beings. (Posted by: blue spectral)