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GIRLMONSTER #13
19/03/2011
Performance by Lucia and Anetta
(Curators of this years Rumanian pavilion at Venice biennale)
Girlmonster is a series curated by Chicks on Speed taking place at Kampnagel.
Every Girlmonster show presents a lecture, a video screening, a performance and a
concert.
Girlmonster #13 is hosted by Melissa Logan (CoS) and beside the performance Gudrun
Ankele (Vienna / tutor/publicist) will give a lecture on females in the economic
system, Melissa Logan will screen a film and DAT Politics will perform a concert.
For the performance we need at least 8 performers wearing ONLY grey civilian
cloths.
Rehearsals are planned for Friday and Saturday afternoon.
Showtime is Saturday, 19/03/2011, 21.00h.
Every performer gets a care package from the Chicks on Speed as well as one free
ticket for Girlmonster #13!
About the performance:
IF NOT US, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN? is a live sculpture, a pageant of a street
protest frozen in time and space. The performers should form a compact group and
mime a group of people protesting/demonstrating on the streets. The demonstration
should appear "frozen", the performers should hold a still pose without the
slightest move, simulating vigorous marching, screaming/chanting, lifting fists,
etc. The whole living sculpture/situation should look like a cut out, a fragment, a
live photograph of a street protest, a riot stopped in time and space. The
performers are about to move only when a passer-by throws a coin in the metal bowl
that is placed near the protesting group. Similarly to the street "living
sculptures", when paid, the demonstrants should move minimally and smoothly -
phasing a large movement (one step or lifting of a fist) into several small phases,
no jerky, large or expressive moves. The still poses should appear as frozen
movements, as being in the middle of an action, of a step, scream, etc - not as a
standing demonstration. The demonstration would manifest continuously in slow
motion, frame by frame. The performers should for the whole duration of the
performance remain silent.
The whole tableau vivant speaks about the illusoriness of subversion, about the
controlled condition of the public space and the economic relations that create
invisible ground and rules hidden behind each apparently spontaneous act.

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Go Chic has played with such notable acts as Peaches(CA), Vicarious Bliss(ED BANGER FR), Dandi Wind(CA), Shitdisco(DIM MAK UK), Death is Not My Aim(JP), etc.
Go Chic was invited to play at SXSW festival in Austin TX and Fuji Rock festival in Japan, 2010. Go Chic was nominated for "Best Pop Song", "Best Electro/Dance Song", "Most Mind-blowing Music Video" by AVIMA 2010(Asia Pacific VOICE Independent Music Video Awards). Won "Best Genre-Bending Act" and the "Tipped 2 Be The Next Big Thing" award by AVIMA 2010.

Biography:
Go Chic describes their music as “Electro-Hyphy-Chicks, Hybridized Punk-Blues-Rock” or “sound like Peaches, CSS, Le Tigre”. However, it is far too simple to depict them as merely an electro punk band after listening to their debut album- I am Confused. Such as my favorite track “2010”, puts together electro punk/electro-garage-rock elements that sound like the spark of when Soulwax meets Garbage. 8-Bit inspired tunes remind me of the 8-Bit Thrash craze led by Crystal Castles. Striding on the steps of Disco-Funk is “Dance With Her”, a perfect tribute to the Disco Punk spirit of DFA. Not to mention “We’re All Lovers & Runners”, where they have a sniff of 80’s New Wave, which is the “happiest” track in this album.
I am Confused, takes us through a delightful experience back in the 90’s indie scene, where vocalist Ariel raps like Princess Superstar and at the same time captivates us with a voice that wonderfully parodies Shirley Manson’s(Garbage). The amazing energy that comes out of every song reminds me of the “New Wave of New Wave” Elastica that emerged from the Pre-Britpop days and has every ability to rise as the leading Riot Girrrlz of today!!!
(By DJ Mykal 林哲儀)

LECTURE BY PIL AND GALIA KOLLECTIV
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PERFORMANCE BY ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE AND ANAT BEN-DAVID

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DON´T MISS: ALL THIS ON 28th JANUARY IN HAMBURG, KAMPNAGEL / 20:30 h
29th JANUARY IN DÜSSELDORF, FFT / 20:00 h

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preparation: countdown for GIRL MONSTER # 12: REDEFINING THE NOW

on 28th january at Kampnagel, Hamburg
on 29th january at FFT, Düsseldorf

TRANCEFORMATION OF VIOLENCE

A GUIDE TO VOODOO-PERFORMANCE

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