This is an open forum and presents a variety of ritualistic text/sound/body work. Utilizing frequencies as specific magical sound pulses to help induce the mind/body in a fertility of text, the delirium of a dancer’s movement, the kinetic touch of the person next to you, sound/vision flowing between contact. An attempt to achieve ‘sacred time’ – as Bataille would call the moment of annihilation, ultimate inner experience
Target: Take from Anywhere and Rebuild
Black Pig Liberation Front opposes the idea that knowledge must grow in a set structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow established patterns. We want experimental works located outside current disciplines, work that has no proper location.We are not interested in publishing texts that establish their [...]
Are witnessing not only the possibility for recognition of new knowledges that have been bypassed or excluded, but also the tentative mapping out of a new terrain for research in which the boundaries and possibilities of ‘narrative’ itself are challenged, an embodied social practice completely discarded?
Unpacking this sense of unease regarding written statements seems [...]
I met Tariq Zayid and his fellow performers from Black Pig Liberation Front at the Meer Dan Woorden (More than Words) avant-garde spoken word and music festival in Goes, Holland. Tariq is a powerful, articulate, creative, imaginative, thought provoking performer, whose word and manipulated tonal passages are supported by an array of other artists, including [...]
Vice-president of the University of Chile Student Federation, 23-year-old Camila Vallejo has led a campaign for better access to education that began in April 2011. The student movement in Chile opposes neoliberalism and shook the country’s elitist democracy. She was voted person of the year in a poll of guardian.co.uk readers. Neoliberal “common sense” is [...]
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Emmy Hennings was born in Flensburg, Germany. She was a performer at the Cabaret Simplizissimus in Munich, when she met Ball in 1913. At the time, Hennings was already a published poet, whose works had appeared in left-wing publications called Pan and Die Aktion. In 1913 she also published a short poetry collection called Ether [...]
