Fiddling while Athens is "destroyed"
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imomusI'm playing a concert in Athens this Saturday.
Saturday September 15th 2007
Legal Tender presents...
Momus
Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts
Victory Collapse
Bios
84 Pireos Avenue
Athens
Greece
8pm
€15
My concert co-incides -- whether happily or not I won't know until I check it out -- with the First Athens Art Biennial. Yes, the city has joined the gazillion others which now host biennials and triennials. The curators, filled with punky spunk, have named theirs "Destroy Athens". Unfortunately, shortly after they chose the name parts of Athens really were destroyed. By fire. "This reminds me of the last day of Pompeii," commented one resident, who seemed to have a long memory.
The curators' manifesto is, appropriately enough, a scream.
"Destroy Athens tells a story," it informs us. "As the place where the story unfolds we chose Athens; at first perhaps for the obvious reason that we live here. However, we are in a way fortunate as Athens is in itself an appropriate emblem for what we termed a stereotype, throughout the long period that the story was being shaped, that is the sense of extra-determination which constitutes the extreme expression of the subject’s self-construction we mentioned before... A story is something which happens to a subject, to a potential “someone”. A story can face the question: what if all is not going to be alright? What if someone decides to try their luck, to raise their voice, to engage in conflict, to abolish consent, to destroy Athens? Let us, then, come to the monsters."
Saturday September 15th 2007
Legal Tender presents...
Momus
Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts
Victory Collapse
Bios
84 Pireos Avenue
Athens
Greece
8pm
€15
My concert co-incides -- whether happily or not I won't know until I check it out -- with the First Athens Art Biennial. Yes, the city has joined the gazillion others which now host biennials and triennials. The curators, filled with punky spunk, have named theirs "Destroy Athens". Unfortunately, shortly after they chose the name parts of Athens really were destroyed. By fire. "This reminds me of the last day of Pompeii," commented one resident, who seemed to have a long memory.
The curators' manifesto is, appropriately enough, a scream.
"Destroy Athens tells a story," it informs us. "As the place where the story unfolds we chose Athens; at first perhaps for the obvious reason that we live here. However, we are in a way fortunate as Athens is in itself an appropriate emblem for what we termed a stereotype, throughout the long period that the story was being shaped, that is the sense of extra-determination which constitutes the extreme expression of the subject’s self-construction we mentioned before... A story is something which happens to a subject, to a potential “someone”. A story can face the question: what if all is not going to be alright? What if someone decides to try their luck, to raise their voice, to engage in conflict, to abolish consent, to destroy Athens? Let us, then, come to the monsters."![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-09-13 12:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-09-13 02:14 am (UTC)Anyway, you don't need to tell me the details, I found out myself! And yes, they are both highly individual and awesome musicians! ~*oh, those Currie's*~
Re: artist statement copped from The Clouds?
Date: 2007-09-13 03:13 am (UTC)Is the punchline "How are those two arseholes of yours?"
Date: 2007-09-13 12:57 am (UTC)I think it's been around.
Your Athens visit sort of follows Naomi Klein's new book
"The Shock Doctrine" about Disaster Capitalism.
This could be trend.
Artist statement copped from"The Clouds"?
Date: 2007-09-13 03:09 am (UTC)STREPSIADES: It’s the man whose cloak you stole.
STUDENT: We’ll die. You’ll kill us all!
STREPSIADES: That’s what I want—unless this mattock
disappoints my hopes or I fall through somehow
and break my neck.
[Socrates comes out of the house in a cloud of smoke. He is coughing badly]
SOCRATES: What are you doing up on the roof?
STREPSIADES: I walk on air and contemplate the sun.
SOCRATES: [coughing] This is bad—I’m going to suffocate.
STUDENT: [still at the window] What about poor me? I’ll be burned up.
[Strepsiades and Xanthias come down from the roof]
STREPSIADES: [to Socrates] Why were you so insolent with gods
in what you studied and when you explored
the moon’s abode? Chase them off, hit them,
throw things at them—for all sorts of reasons,
but most of all for their impiety.
[Strepsiades and Xanthias chase Socrates and the students off the stage and exit after them]
CHORUS LEADER: Lead us on out of here. Away!
We’ve had enough of song and dance today.
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Date: 2007-09-13 04:03 am (UTC)it did happen aparently
http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr
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Date: 2007-09-13 12:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 01:48 pm (UTC)thank you
Stevie Wittgentstein
Madeleine McCann case
Date: 2007-09-13 02:15 pm (UTC)Disproportionate over exposure
Pretty white blond girl
Middle class doctors
Paedophilia hysteria
Jingoism
Re: Madeleine McCann case
Date: 2007-09-13 10:38 pm (UTC)Subprime commentator
Seeks fresh angle
But echoes every pub bore
In the country
"Being fucked to death by cocks
As big as your arm
Is no big deal"
"Yeah, it happened to me once"
Re: Madeleine McCann case
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Date: 2007-09-13 02:16 pm (UTC)hey momus!
Date: 2007-09-14 06:36 am (UTC)sincerely, peter.
happy
Date: 2007-09-16 09:59 am (UTC)