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.
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
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You’ve located our blaze orange beacon and witnessed the tranzmission. Now, we implore you to converge on the signal’s epicenter at tractor for an 8PM broadcast Saturday, March 20th to see, feel, and taste these agentz of orange wield their surgical implementz of intercommunication.
Tranzportable media will be on hand. Heart pumping superbazz will be FREE.
Everett Station Loftz 328 NW Broadway #114 Portland, OR 97209
