The world as we know it
is in for a dramatic and devastating party when the Secret Anunnaki
Sound System delivers dramatic devastating Nibiru Bass frequencies
developed on the farthest outskirts of our solar system for thousands of
years.
Stock up on drinks while you can!
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HUREN (DJ SET) SANS PAPIER LETHE BEACH JERKY PARKING EXIT JUKE WILSON
Hamilton based disobedient electronic musician Huren
performed to a packed house on Friday, June 8th, 2012 at the Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto. Huren's performance was part of
VIDEODROME, an annual Audio/Visual event inspired by David Cronenberg’s 1983
cult film of the same name. The event was attended by over 700 this year, a
healthy mix of Toronto scene queens, Burlington pre queens and Hamilton crack fiends
- all united at last!
Known in some circles as David Foster and former
touring drummer of Junior Boys, Huren is no stranger to the dark, weird and
twisted realms of experimental electronic music. Huren began his career
over two decades ago in the German underground largely rejecting the clean and
polished sounds of minimal techno, instead seeking to develop a sound more
confrontational, extreme and rhythmic noise based, putting out a series of
obscure releases on the Berlin division of Zhark.
The night featured a sprawling and eclectic mix of
visual music consisting of beat matched visuals responding to rhythmic sonic
transitions, done live using computer programs such as Max/MSP, as well as
installation works, a wicked cluster fuck of awesomeness and total sensory
overload.
Huren's performance at VIDEODROME almost did not
come to fruition after a near death experience earlier this year, in April he
got jumped outside of Hess Village in his hometown of Hamilton and suffered a
fractured scull as a result. True to his Hammer city grit and as the old adage
goes: what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, Huren returned with a
vengeance shouting bitcrushed, filtered and distorted criticisms of la société
du spectacle against rhythmic pulsating noises and chest vibrating synth bass lines.
The shit was way too real and str8 O.G.
Huren's sounds evoke a low rent, impure, gruesome
vibe and are exactly what you would expect from an artist who emerged on the
heels of other early 90s counter cultural icons like Hakim Bey. Part
"$cumtronic$" and part trippin’ on the separation of the
$€n$ibl¥e, his lyrics are at times incomprehensible: "you paid what he
paid / I paid what you paid / fuck off!!! / I paid what we all paid!",
lyrics loosely inspired by the Nissan employee pricing car commercial, paradoxical as that may seem. As a musician,
Huren is hyper aware of all the fucked up shit presently going on in the world
- from capitalism and its discontents through wage labour and debt servitude - and
few are more critical, self consciously erroneous and straight up disruptive of
the system than him.
Huren’s performance also featured Toronto based A/V
artist Infinity Dose, wearing a mask replete with small pieces of broken mirror.
An emerging A/V artist hard as shit and with tight game all the same, Infinity Dose utilized elements of appropriated multi channel video projections
juxtaposed and layered on top of one another, creating an immersive
tone for Huren’s performance with scenes of chaotic and violent visual
assemblages, complimenting the music and providing a strong synasthetic element.
Organized by artist Jubal Brown whose set also blew
minds as well as fists and even the World Trade Centre (multiple times and in
quick succession), VIDEODROME also featured the work of other A/V aficionados
including Augart, Ouananiche, Nwodtlem, Smearballs, Crazy Gnome, Ocusonic,
lttlbrd, Contort and Hip.p, TalixZen, Fuctaculon, Video Samurai, Kyle Duffield
& Daniele Hopkins, Pete Ohearn, dAeve Fellows, Istvan Kantor, The Whore
Church, Kyle Duffield, Marisa Hoicka and VJ Jerrem Lynch.
Look out for VIDEODROME next year kids, break out the popcorn and beamers this gesamtkunstwerk shit will blow your brain!
With a major solo exhibition of paintings and notes from Kensington Market in Toronto, Temporary Projects is pleased to present the work of Swedish artist, author and musician Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson.
The originals of this series of gouache paintings carried out while Andersson was living in Kensington Market from 1996-97, supported on a fat grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, will be exhibited publically for the first time at Temporary Projects. Andersson is an accomplished painter who uses bold colours to convey compositional arrangements that function in part as a documentation of a neighborhood in constant flux, explored through the artist’s own subjectivity as “an anti-authoritarian free spirited citizen of the universe.” The images consist of everyday genre scenes imbued with multifarious philosophical and theological subtexts, taken directly and informed by Andersson’s writing on Bertrand Russell and his search for certainty in religion and mathematics.
Born in Sweden, Andersson has since 1972 studied theology and philosophy at Lund University, Harvard Divinity School and did one year of graduate studies in philosophy at Berkeley California, under the guidance of Dadaist Paul Feyerabend and various other leftovers from the 60s. The result was that it took him 15 years as a graduate student commuting between the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Hamiltonand Sweden, which resulted in a doctoral thesis in philosophy of religion, which was successfully defended at Lund in the spring of 1994. Since then Andersson has been a free loading, free thinking, free fucking citizen of the Universe surviving on the kindness of family, friends and strangers, without ever having had to rely on the dirty military-industrial-financial-academic-media complex.
How is this possible? Come to Temporary Projects on December 9th at 19:00 and the Doc will tell you...
Also featuring special guests including chronic free loader Scott Horlacher and the Spirit of Bertrand Russell…
→Channeling the technique of Automatism throughout most of his work, Thomas Jessome can perhaps be best categorized as an Internet topographer. In the heyday of advance imaging and image manipulation, Thomas utilizes dated techniques -such as bitmapping- and images found on random Google searches to imbue the saturation of information available on the net with new meaning.
The process is precisely the key to understanding the work. Thomas assembles singular desensitized entities into challenging new pieces which suggest to the viewer new concepts of the information age. Thomas thus rethinks the planned obsolescence manifest in today's technology and its visual culture into a rhizome of expressive meaning. ←
Temporary Projects is the name of an experiment in 21st century artistic and cultural production. Formally, it is a project space dedicated to facilitating a dialogue between artists and the ideas they present. More broadly, it symbolizes a line that is at once a point of connections and divergences. It is a door through which there are many departures and many arrivals.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 11th, 2011 19:00hrs
Temporary Projects
22 Wilson Street (2nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)
Hamilton, ON
Canada
♦Soundscapes provided by You&Me♦
☺BRING YOUR OWN ATOMIC SPIRITS☻
♂Come for the Art, stay for the Party♀
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Pragmatism and Praxis are key, call it double 'P'.
