KASTRATION - Call for submissions

▲▲ To all the weirdos out there!!! ▲▲
(maknovistas, queer punks, psychic youth, neoists, alien abductees, plagiarists, sprawl squatters, noisers, hijackers, slackers, time travelers, pranksters, suicide survivors...)
➤ I'm starting a series of thematic fanzines.
The first one is called KASTRATION (which is the title and the topic)
So I'm looking forward to your contributions!! Send art, images, photos or texts (any language is fine, no format limit, any artworks or texts you want submit)
No limits but your work has to fit with the theme. Kastration must not be understood only in a clinical way, but in a broader way.
☻Deadline is 30 jan., if you send through post let me know via e-mail.
All the selected partecipants will receive documentation & list of contacts (if you send paper you will receive a printed copy if you send digital you will receive the zine in pdf format The zine will NOT be sold only traded!).

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Sto iniziando un nuovo progetto: una serie di fanzine tematiche.
Il primo numero si chiamerà KASTRATION, che è titolo e tema della zine.
Se volete contribuire inviatemi arte, immagini, foto o testi!
Non ci sono limiti, né di quantità, formato o contenuti ma il lavoro deve essere coerente con il tema: Kastration, che non dovrà essere interpretato solamente a livello clinico, ma in modo più ampio.

chel white

Industrial Park (1983)

  

Machine Song (1987) 

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test department + sheep on drugs

mexican anarquistas

p r a n k s

ReSearch Publications, by V. Vale , is one of the best editor for weird counter-culture phenomena. Cult books and magazines analyzing Punk (Search & Destroy), Industrial (Vile, Industrial Culture Handbook), cyberpunk grandfather (J.G. Ballard, W.S. Burroughs), tattoos and body modification, became the most comprehensive and passionate guides on the argoments.

PRANKS - Re/Search Publications
Just found on Youtube the Video for the Pranks! issue..

PRANKS Video VHS
''Interviews with: Mark Pauline – Founder of machine-mangling Survival Research Laboratories recounts giant billboard “improvements” done in his misspent youth. Karen Finley – Provocative performance artist: sex, food, death, and butt hairs…Joe Coleman – New York madman crashes parties with explosives wired to chest… You guess the rest! Boyd Rice – Presents the First Lady of the United States, Betty Ford, with a skinned sheep’s head on a silver platter! Frank Discussion – Intense leader of seminal punk band Feederz throws dead dog into audience… causes big stink!
Riotously funny. Shocking. Exhilarating. A critique of authoritarian language, society, and robotic behavior. This video will dazzle the brain and inspire the imagination. Directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.''

For Italian user:
La rivista Pranks, è tra i primi titoli della bibliografia del libro ''Non è vero! Disordinazioni: un'avanguardia subliminale di massa '' di Edoardo De Falchi. Le 'disordinazioni' italiane sono figlie di questo Pranks molto american style: la burla, il gioco, la presa per i fondelli, il neoismo, il nome multiplo, l'anonimato. Oltre al libro quindi: Luther Blissett, Gruppo di Piombino, Pino Boresta, Andrea Natella e via così. Trasforma la città, disordinala, derivala psicogeograficamente, crea zone temporaneamente autonome, appropriati del pubblico.

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W.S. Burroughs - Shooting.

Ufo. MIR Men in Red

BULLETT - An act of resistance
NY squat art gallery

BOYCOTT NIKE

Katharos Foundation

PWOG
katharos foundation
p.o. box 837
5000 av tilburg
HOLLAND

The Katharos Foundation was one of the ACCESS to the Temple of Psychick Youth, created in Tilburg by the former member of the techno act Psychick Warriors ov Gaia (previously known as The Infant and Sluagh Ghairm).

"The Katharos Foundation was established in Tilburg (The Netherlands) in February 1986. Katharos comprises a number of people who are engaged in music, performance, and other activities to emphasize in an explicit and penetrative way their personal search for expression and manifestation of the diversity and complexity of both individual and social life. Some members of Katharos occasionally performed under the name 'Sluagh Ghairm'.

Katharos performed at Metabletica, a visual music event held at V2 in 1986"
[from http://v2.nl/archive/organizations/katharos]

"In 1984 I had just moved to Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and I was glad I left Tilburg, a university town with a pretty big appetite in experimental/weird stuff. I used to be in several bands there, influenced by all kinds of industrial music (Einsturzende Neubauten, Sprung Aus den Wolken, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire…), producing a kind of sonic & cultural (& political) anarchy. Around 1984/85 scenes & bands were torn apart when a weird kind of post/neo/religious/tribal/pseudo-artistic/therapeutic/occult/sex-death fundamentalism came to blossom. I remember half of my scene digging into this new age crap, reading Austin Osman Spare, Allister Crowley, Georges Bataille and Genesis P. Orridge. Digging through my archive I just found a magazine some of my friends produced in the eighties, called SILENCER, published by KF, Katharos Foundation – on the cover Genesis is looking at me with a grim face, wearing a bone on his shoulder. Anyway, I never liked that stuff, felt it was pseudo-scientific bullshit, didn’t like the doomy art work and experienced it as a kind of religious fascism or tribal fundamentalism, a kind of unconscious surreal fascism. Maybe if I would have dived deeper in it, I would be more cautious in choosing my words, but I just hated the whole appeal. Maybe I was too rational for it (music & the sonic was my surrealism). (Anyway, some folks of my scene became part of The Temple and later founded the Psychic Warriors ov Gaia – you might remember them). Going through that zine once more I feel that suffocating atmosphere again"

 [from http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/12/the-strange-case-of-nicola-vincenzio-crane/]

Silencer No 1 
Editor: Katharos Foundation, Holland 1989, 36 pp, 1989
Temple Ov Psychick Youth-themed fanzine with several articles by Genesis P-Orridge. Also articles on dadaism and Austin Osman Spare. Richly illustrated.  Print run 500 copies. English

''SILENCER is a project initiated by the KATHAROS FOUNDATION for those who do not wish to conform and are in search for information, inspiration, challenge, method and support.

We intend to start an active exchange of information through SILENCER and therefore invita everyone to cooperate and send in articles, visuals, poetry, stories etc...We will accept all informative and challenging entries.

DON'T BE THE AUDIENCE BE THE EVENT! GET INVOLVED!

To make a start SILENCER ONE was born out of personal interests, and gives an indication of what SILENCER is about.

SILENCER TWO will contain a.o. a survey on the French writer/philosopher George Bataille, who is renown for his books discussing the relationship between sex, death and debauch; an introductory biography on the French writer Guy Flaques and an anthology of his manual: 'Le Tribunal Correctionel' and a fictional story on totalitarianism.

In order to explore methods of communication and enhance consciousness, SILENCER will appear not only on paper but in many forms like videos, performances etc. and in every possibile combination.

Februari 1989''

"slowly we started getting more acid and new beat records in our tiny record store. But not enough for my taste, cause I was blown away by this abstract stuff, so I started hanging out at a record shop in Tilburg, where the guys of PWOG (Psychic Warriors Ov Gaia) used to work. These guys had everything first! I picked up the first Aphex Twin records there, on unmarked white labels…"
[from Drvg Cvltvre interview]

Some pathetic letters by Genesis P-Orridge claiming copyright infringement on the use of Psychick Cross Logo.
[read here http://genesisporridgearchive.blogspot.it/2009/11/gens-1994-cease-and-desist-to-psychick.html?zx=3986451366ff834e]

''Since 1985 Reinier Brekelmans (a.k.a. Arbe) has been involved in experimental music. Not hindered by any formal training whatsoever he started by banging oil drums with steel pipes and table legs in the small basement of the student house where he lived. There a group of friends, who came to call themselves The Infants, would gather every Sunday afternoon for a session of Post Punk/Industrial-style noisiness with percussions, guitars, tapes, electronics and lots of feedback. Only once they took to the stage in a venue, calling themselves Los Infantilos for the occasion and therefore pulling a crowd from the Caribbean area who were expecting to dance to some salsa-tunes. Instead they had to endure a bizarre art performance with a Factory/Velvet Underground-vibe, complete with a 30 minute rendering of Venus in Furs, a slide show of strange sexual images and a uterus-like glass object that was swinging from the ceiling and gave birth to life-like babies made of red Jello (all visuals/objects by Antoine Timmermans), splatting to the floor and scattering in blobs only to end up being rubbed in the face by the singer (Eric Toornend).
In this underground chaos some structure emerged as most members expressed the desire to have an outlet for their (musical, literary, photographic, etc.) art. The idea to provide an umbrella to put it all under gave rise to the Katharos Foundation, a publishing/producing platform thought-up by Reinoud van den Broek. With little means some cassettes and a magazine were a released and events were organized in Tilburg, among which some of the first (proto-) house parties there. Around ’89 the core activity of KF slimmed down to one project: Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, or PWOG. Reinoud van den Broek, Robbert Heijnen (Exquisite Corpse, XCOR) en Reinier, who after The Infants worked together as Sluagh Ghairm, were fascinated by the new dance events, the mechanisms involved and the possibilities to experiment with those mechanisms.''
[from https://corpsflottants.wordpress.com/previous/]

'' [..] Halfway the decade one of the initiatives was the Katharos Foundation, a loose collective of outsiders, self-proclaimed artists who, by the act of collaboration found a way to express their ideas and thoughts. Besides several multimedia events and concerts, the Foundation published some compilation cassettes, a magazine and a video magazine.
As music was the core activity, the Foundation harboured several bands. One of these projects was Sluagh Ghairm consisting of Reinier Brekelmans and Reinoud van den Broek. At that time the sound was atmospheric, industrial but not particularly aimed at the feet. Inspiration was drawn from a wide range of sources, music from all over the world and of all times, but also from philosophy, science, literature and last but not least nature. One particular notion, amongst others, is that we humans are part of nature,instead of being apart from or above it, Homo sapiens evolved in the same manner and from the same source as did Culex pipiens, the latter being the more successful. A humbling yet liberating and challenging notion that needed to be communicated, at least we thought so then......and, although supposedly wiser, still do.
For the realisation of their ideas they were aided by the musically ever busy Robbert Heijnen who, almost casually and often unasked for, always added something extra and indispensable. Robbert's interest in electronic music made him eager to explore experimental studio set-ups that found a willing ear in us. This collaboration would eventually evolve into PWOG. '' Reinoud van den Broek 
[from https://soundcloud.com/sacred-summits/a1-acid-dervish-1]

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CHAKK

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 500 Clams + Visible Targets at Everett Community College November 18, 1983

A Guy Called Gerald, 1989

DoubleVision Postcard.

Shot for the amazing Filthy Club collection. filled with early 90s techno references.

Posting this while sick as fuck. damn.
Listening to: F***ing Hardcore 1993 Mokum, ...

Aris Papoulis

 Aris Papoulis is a xerox/collage project run by Gabriele Longega, member of the art-collective Persuasion Einsatzgruppe, from Italy.

The collage works is characterized by using black&white xerox, recycled images and photos.
Most of the subject are beautiful pattern of landscape and nature in opposition with dead body or police brutality, reflecting the mistrust of the author in contemporary society, humanity and life in general.

Aris Papoulis - Untitled
collag, xerox, 10x15 cm

For the exhibition ‘Im Sterben liegen’ curated by Persuasion, june 2013, Venice, Italy

 

 Aris Papoulis - Oberfranken #1
dec 2013, collage, xerox, A5

 Aris Papoulis - Untitled (while listening Grey Wolves)
dec 2013, collage, xerox, size A4

 Aris Papoulis - Untitled (check under the surface)
dec 2013, xerox, collage, size A4

 Aris Papoulis - Untitled (nature)
dec 2013, xerox, paper, collage, size A4

If you're interested in more works. Click here

VOVOKAI

'''Paul en Etwin, uit Zeeland afkomstig maar nu in Eindhoven wonende jongelui, vormden in maart 1980 Vovokai. Daarvoor hadden ze al samen in een punkbandje het een en ander opgedaan onder de naam Spastix.
Paul bezat een gitaar, een versterker, een ritmebox en een kraakdoos. Etwin een synthesizer, een versterker en wat microfoons. Na een tijde thuis te hebben samengespeeld, besloten ze om op te trden tegen onkostenvergoeding en waar gespeeld wed, dat deeed er niet zo toe.
Ze hadden geen vaste nummers, ook al omdat gebruikte ritmes op hun selfmade ritmebox niet zo gemakkelijk weer teerug te vinden waren.
In het begin trachten ze weinig tot geen melodie te gebruiken: een onstemde gitaar met veel ruis en vervorming.
Voor een optreden werd flink geblowed, waarna een filmprojector werd aangezet en Vovokai gedurende een half uur tot een uur z'n gang ging. Veel publick was er bijna nooit en de meningen waren of 'gewoon herrieì' of 'interessant' tegenwoordig zijn een aantal dingen gewijzigd.
Melodielijnen worden weer gebruikt, de appartuur is uitgebreid met een bas, een elektriusche piano, een echobox en nog wat dingen. De ritmes worden nu vastgelegd op tape waardoor min of meer vaste nummers ontstaan.
Etwin heeft er teksten bij gemaakt die door vervoming absoluut niet te verstaan zijn, wat zijn bedoeling is.
Tijdens een optreden is Blerick, hier speelden ze samen met Rabbitfun, een band waarmee ze vaker optreden en ook apparatuur uitwisselen kregen ze tot hun grote verbazing opeens bij een bepaald nummer erg veel applaus.
Dit nummer werd als basis gebruikt om in die richting met de muziek verder te gaan.
In eigen beheer hebben ze een cassette opgenomen die een uur duurt. Deze is te bestellen bij Vovokai, Lakenstraat 16, 6613 ER Eindhoven. Het beste is volgens Paul om een tientje (met een papiertje er om heen, je mag niet kunnen zien dat ereen tientje in zit) op te sturen.
Deze cassette staat vol met muzick die herinnert aan Throbbing Gristle, (een groep die ze zelf niet kennen) ritme met allerlei elektronische geluiden. Hun favoriete plaat is 'Alees ist Gut' van DAF.
Een heel klein stukje van hun cassette werd onlangs nog op het VPRO-programma Radionome gedraaid; een programma dat grootmoedig tien minuten besteedt aan ingestuurde platen en cassettes.
Een zeer bekend kunstenaar, zijn naam ben ik vergeten, deed de uitspraak dat in de kunst geen vernieuwingen plaatsvinden, dat de dingen alleen anders worden 'dagestellt'. Wel, daar heeft hij wel gelijk in ook.
Bij muziek gaat het om een uiting van innerlijke emoties, die nu nog precies dezelfde zijn als drie duizend jaar geleden; ik doel hier op lust, onlust vreugde en leed en dat dan nog in verschillende niveaus. Wat ons dus overblijft is het anders voorstellen en dat lijk in principe niet zo moeilijk: drie duizend jaar geleden was bijvoorbeeld de black and decker doormachine (Einsturzende Neubauten) nog niet uitgevonden.
En dan geluidstyphoon Z'EV; een verhaal apart. Van dit soort mensen geloof ik dat ze veel wezenlijker bezig zijn  dan bijvoorbeeld al die koude synthesizer dansorkestjes, due met verwoede pogingen op allerlei trends proberen in te springen. Vovokai houdt hier zo'n beetje het midden tussen.''''
[via no longer forgotten music]

///(((())))\\\\

For  a good work use a good soundtrack:
Zazou / BIKAYE / CY1  - Noir et blanc

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Underground U.S.A. from Rockerilla no.17, Oct 1981

David Ehrestein reviews Eric Mitchell’s Underground U.S.A., from BOMB no.1, Spring 1981.
(right) Still from Underground U.S.A. with Rene Ricard, Tom DiCillo, Patti Astor and Eric Mitchell.


While listening:
some KASETTE FIX stuff,
like: Der Oberfranken Sampler (C60)
or other Kulmbach bands like: Wotan Watuszi

 if you want more Deutsch DIY tapes,
check the evergreen PUNK-DISCO

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Event Cities Tschumi

scanned while listening:

various - four in one (lp 1982 Grafika Discs)
with: subjects, legendary pink dots, glamour for evening, bene gesserit

lister / mørkelagt bevegelse - en side hver (c30 1984 likvider)

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posting this while listening
Dj Yves Deruyter - Live at The Globe 27-06-1993
great selection of Early Techno - some Parkzicht classics. Belgium ist techno! Gabba bye

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K.K. Records Mail Order

inside Stereo Taxic Device lp 1990