Microscope welcomes Future Death Toll multi-media collective from Portland for the launch of their new project micronemez.
The website http://micronemez.com was launched on 11.11.11 to serve as a platform for the broadcasting of creative commons licensed audio and video. On Friday 11.18.11 at Microscope Gallery, FDT will be airing a selection of animations, sculptural mutations, and manipulated documentation from micronemez.
- – – – – – – – – – - FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18, 7PM Admission $6 MICROSCOPE GALLERY 4 Charles Place Bushwick Brooklyn, NY 11221
LAST THURSDAY 9-29-2011 8-9PM PORTLAND, OR DOWN THE SOUTH ALLEYWAY OFF OF NE ALBERTA ST. BETWEEN 26TH AND 27TH AVE.
HAYBATCH! IN CONJUNCTION WITH APPENDIX PROJECT SPACE PRESENTS:
CHIPPER__SHREDDER: AN EVENT OF INDUSTRIAL INVOLUTION. FUTURE DEATH TOLL IS A THROBBING MESS OF NOISE THAT CASTS BODY PARTS, FEEDS LIMBS THROUGH A GAS POWERED CHIPPER SHREDDER, AND STARTS FIRES. TRAUMATIC RITUAL (THE EVENT) PROVIDES ACTION TO THE SCULPTURAL OBJECT, RESULTING IN A MUTATED FORM. SPECTATOR PROVOKES DESTRUCTION IN AN OTHERWISE PRODUCTIVE PRAXIS.
cast the body, night has fallen. filter’d downward, through steel and cavern. flywheel grinding limbs hide. shred the body, night has fallen.
Haybatch! Performance Space was founded in 2009 to diversify the range of Appendix programming with a focus on performance art. Haybatch 2010 was curated by Matthew Green, and the current 2011 season is being co-curated by Michael Reinsch and Laura Hughes.
FUTURE DEATH TOLL is currently participating in a group exhibition entitled MIX TAPE, which is taking place at the Tin Sheds Gallery in the University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA. The exhibition runs from June 2nd to 23rd 2011. This show was curated/devised by Lucas Abela and play-stations for the exhibit were constructed by Hirofumi Uchino & Lucas Abela. This exhibition is supported the Australia Council for the Arts.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: “An exhibition of individual sound works and an interactive sound installation, Mix Tape provides its visitors with tactile playback of a sculptural mass of audiotape. Sound artists from around the world were invited to submit an audiocassette and a balloon. These balloons, with their tape tied to each like a ribbon are filled with helium and released into the ceiling, leaving the tape to unspool as their cassette anchors them to the gallery floor. This forest of exposed audio-tape providing the raw material for an interactive mash up of all the works. You can play these tapes by manually running their magnetic strips across exposed playback heads mounted to play-stations situated throughout the gallery.”
-Lucas Abela
For more information, pictures, and audio/video of the exhibition, please take a look at the following links and embed video:
take blaze orange chair place in location sit down and wear PLEASE DON’T TOUCH OR MOVE bent kill rip stop light rubber tire stacked in four rows slow death with come quickly left in the street water raising flood crashing on the coast sand between my toes ride a train until it stops get out to connect the dots soft skin lick sweat you are my membrane cold hands leg shake cut rip straight fall into line meat rack meat sack cut down the spine fall asleep wake up with no legs we’ve been robbed resize crimped pipe solder the wire like a deer in a headlight mesmerized by flames stoking fire with a crutch screaming can not silence the beating of the drum like a mechanical bull bucking drunk riders we cannot look away from the spectacle
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you don’t know who is on the other line. sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you do all the talking. sometimes when you pick up the pwn, the pwn does all the talking for you.
3X_PWN_TRANZ containz the evidence of a past or future mission to tranzmit, tranzportable implementz of communication, and the insistance on a tranzaction of sense-data excretion between you and the agentz of a blaze orange signal’z tranzmutation.
FUTURE DEATH TOLL has deployed a beacon to tractor that is set to activate on March 4th. FUTURE DEATH TOLL will be conducting a live tranzmission via tractor on March 20th.
