Sabotage
Performance night
The programme consists of the following parts:
1.The Speculative Archive, Los Angeles, United States
In the light of recent events (presentation)
2.State of Sabotage, Vienna, Austria
Amikejo – national dish and SoS consulate (performance)
3.Clausthome / F5, Riga, Latvia
Spectrosphere (sound and video mix)
1.The Speculative Archive, Los Angeles, United States
In the light of recent events
"In light of the recent events" is a PowerPoint presentation that draws from thousands of pages of declassified U.S. government files pertaining to the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973. These files form the basis for a series of speculative documents, which focus on the production of knowledge and forgetting in the context of violent political events. The Archive file series which constitute the presentation include "Richard Helms: Selected Napkins, 1970-1972," "Situation Report, or what perhaps history will ask in retrospect, October 1, 1973," "A human rights record (December 1974)," and "Addendum: as though there is nothing else on the drawing board (1984?)."
Speculative Archive presentations activate specific historical records within the current discourse of terror in order to consider the relationships between secrecy, violence, public knowledge, and memory. The presentations use declassified U.S. government documents as source material for the production of new images and texts. These new documents examine the complex of effects generated not only by the policies recorded in government archives (e.g., a staged coup, a covert action, a proxy war, an arms shipment, an election rigging) but also by the practices and procedures of documentation.
The Speculative Archive is coordinated by Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, artists living and working in Los Angeles.
2.State of Sabotage, Vienna, Austria
Amikejo – national dish and SoS consulate
During Next 5 Minutes, the State of Sabotage will present its national dish and consulate. With its national dish State of Sabotage will territorially rent the intestines of its aspirant civilians. The audience is invited to the SoS national dish that will remain forever in the larger bowel of the audience after consumption. The national dish will contain a Maraschino cherry, specially engraved with SoS typography.
Maraschino cherries will be prepared with chemicals that, like formaldehyde, will not be assimilated nor digested, but will travel through intestines.
The two-hour performance and dinner will take place in a Mongolian tent and will be accompanied by the rejoicing electronic sounds of DJ Pomassl. Inside the tent a temporal SoS consulate and embassy will be installed, where the audience can apply for SoS citizenship and passports.
Amikejo means “place of great friendship” in Esperanto. Amikejo was the proposed new name for the former micro nation “Neutral Moresnet” that had the ambition to become the first Esperanto nation in the world marking the geographical highest point of the Netherlands, Vaalserberg, between 1815 and 1919.
First started by artist Robert Jelinek as a project in 1992, in operation since 1994 as an international music and art label, collective and organization, Sabotage now, in 2003, draws its own artistic conclusions and declares itself a state - a state in time, with its citizens' territories constantly growing, but without the demarcation of national borders. Everyone can own a SoS passport and enjoy the status of a SoS citizen. SoS is a physically vital collective body, installed in real daily social and political space. It is a growing organism whose dynamics, spirit and diversity are shaped by the citizens themselves.
3. Clausthome / F5, Riga, Latvia
Spectrosphere
Sound & video live mix, in which the video is based on different sound parameters and inspired on noise color theories.
Martins Ratniks (image) and Lauris Vorslavs (sound) are artists connected to RIXC, centre for new media culture in Riga.
"HistoryZoo" / martins ratniks/F5 & dev_noise/Clausthome(LV)
An ironic reflexion, influenced by present-day praxis of
vj-ing, on the gallery of iconic images created by global media, of the
'most significant' historical events comprising portraits of leaders and
dictators, nuclear explosion, marching armies, man on the Moon, pop-stars,
demonstrators, DNA scheme, face of the 'main' terrorist, etc.