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“Platoons of the latest replicas of Banksy roam the landscape, led by General Clone Banksy, a talentless nobody who once found a sample of Banksy DNA on an empty spray can. A rowdy gang of Tracey Ermin’s wrestle half a dozen dazed Andy Warhol’s to the ground. It is the future and all forms of art are free, perfect replicas exist of every masterpiece ever created, copyright and ownership are meaningless, ideas are cheap and replicated ad infinitum. Artists have realised that their own identity is the only thing they can own or control, so fans become clones of artists in order to spread their art/identity. One final piece of uncorrupted art remains, yet to be copied: a living story told by Neonate Muses.” - Institute of Contemporary Arts.

“When you learn how to write an article™, you are generally taught that you’re supposed to frame things for your audience with your lead. But in this case I would only be giving you a copy of a copy of a copy. When you’re posed with a performance like Dead Language, it doesn’t so much matter what your critique is. I don’t come away from this with any need to make sense of a plot or analyze the performance based on traditional criteria. I’m not thinking anything at all. Everything that happened was visceral, emotional, possibly subconscious. So what can I tell you? If you went to see a play, and it terrified you so much you pissed all over yourself and broke your leg trying to flee the building, would that be a “good” play?Not saying that my experience of Dead Language was one of terror, but I think you can see my point: this is not like watching Les Miserables.Short of being at ground zero, the video above gives you a vicarious, even voyeristic glimpse into… What? Call it weaponized art. Call it ritual. Simply call it the experience of what happens when language dies. Just don’t call it a play or one of this group might just show up in your nightmares and kill you.After watching - or perhaps participating - in this performance, I had a chance to talk about some of the concepts that played into this work of interactive theatre with John Harrigan, the writer and director of the Foolish People.”Read ART ON THE INSIDE, BLOOD ON THE OUTSIDE on Alterati.com. Part One of Dead Language, on Altertube. (Stay tuned for part 2.)
(Stay with it, things really start several minutes in.)

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The Voice
By Johan Soderberg (2004)

Fundamental Christians and Muslims have finally found out that their basic values are pretty much the same. They join forces and take command of the prosperous northern hemisphere.

The rest of the planet is about to be sealed off by a giant world wide wall. Villains, heathens and other evil people stay on that other side of the wall. Long live the Great Northern Union!!! But nobody is safe, the threat is impending. Is the enemy among us? Where is the solution to the problem? The Voice Television Network gives us an answer.

The film uses the same technique as in the Read My Lips series. All pictures comes from the archives. Famous and infamous personalities participate as hosts and spokesmen.

In leading roles we find, for example: Jean-Marie Le Pen (the French rightwing leader), a number of American presidents (with Mr. Bush as chief commander), Ayatollah Khamenei, Adolf Hitler, Usama Bin Laden, etc. —Kristina Åberg

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The manic multimedia madness of Le Dernier Cri By Rupert Bottenberg
The Montreal Mirror, 2004

“There’s living art,” says Pakito Bolino, “and dead art.” Skulls, gore, medical horror and violence may be luridly prominent in the work of Le Dernier Cri, the French publishing house/art collective of which Bolino and Caroline Sury are the founders. There’s no question, though, that life - ferocious, vibrant, chaotic life - seems to pulse through every drop of ink they lay down.

Originally from Paris but now based in Marseilles, Bolino and Sury run a silkscreening studio from which they’ve produced, through painstaking handmade effort, a decade’s worth of books, comics, monographs, print-medium objets d’art and their flagship magazine Hopital Brut. Oh, and some wild films, too, short barrages of mindbending ocular mayhem assembled by an entire gang of artists. Le Dernier Cri, after all, isn’t just Bolino and Sury, it’s a spectrum of edgy talent from Europe, Japan, the States and right here.

Montreal, in fact, was in a way the birthplace of Le Dernier Cri. In 1990, Bolino fled his demons in Paris, finding sanctuary of sorts with Montreal cartoonist and silkscreener Valium. “We can say that it’s thanks to Montreal that we’ve done Le Dernier Cri, thanks to Valium and his silkscreening studio,” says Bolino - so it’s appropriate that they salute a decade of derangement, with the show DC10/Vomir des yeux, here in the 514.

“We’ll present a selection of the books we’ve done, animated films we’ve done and most importantly our latest film. It’s called Les religions sauvages, it’s two hours long and it was done by 30 artists from around the world.

“Our main aim is to help expose artists from the margins, whether they’re in contemporary art or comics.” Le Dernier Cri is out to destroy the artificial, academic barriers between purported “fine” art, pop art like comix and what’s called l’art brut, or outsider art. That third category is the domain of compulsive schizophrenics and backwoods weirdoes, folks that Le Dernier Cri has a history of integrating into the collective’s assembly of insanity.

“It’s something more visceral, art made by people who aren’t part of normal artistic culture. They’re not aware that they’re doing art. They’re doing it above all for themselves. That’s why the work of certain marginal artists, like the comics of Valium, are rather close to l’art brut, their way of filling up a piece of paper is close to automatic drawing.”

Les Religions Sauvages

“Religions Sauvages” is a hypno-epileptic animated ritual. 30 Kamikazes from the International underground including Mathias Lehmann (France) Tochka (Japan) Mike Diana (USA) e FTZ (Italy) Leyla (Canada) Los Lichis (Mexico) Scott Batty (United Kingdom) Caroline Sury (France) Fredox (France) Marcel Ruijters (Netherlands) Marc Druez (France) Dr.Good (Switzerland) Reijo Karkainen (Finland) Laetitia Brochier (France) Pakito Bolino (France) Judex (France) Ichiba Daisuke (Japan) Stumead (Germany) Marco Corona (Italy) Raymond Reynaud (France) Henriette Valium (Canada) Moulinex (France) MS Bastian (Switzerland) Matti Hagelberg (Finland) Katja tukiainen (Finland) Jonathon Rosen (USA) Elina Merenmies (Finland) Nicoz (Italy) Nuvish (France) Melted Men (USA).

Les Religions Sauvages tube-feeds its audience a horrific diet of sin prescription, visual saintliness torture, twisted pitch black humor, and perversion for initiated eyes. —Le Dernier Cri, 2006

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Hopital Brut

The 45 minute Video features 25 short lunatic animation sequences and takes the form of a visit to the Hopital Brut calling in at each of the wards to observe the heavily medicated inmates/artists. It was originally commissioned by French TV channel Canal Plus, who got a little bit more than they bargained for, and eventually decided to show only half the material they had paid for.

The 25 artists featured in the compilation: Jean Kristau + Anne Fred, Nuvish, Thomas Ott, Leo, Stumead, Doctor Good, Caroline Sury, Fredox, Kerozen, Pakito Bolino, Vinshluss + Cizo, Daniele Jacqui, Moulinex, Mike Diana + F. Kyboot, Laeticia, Andy Bolus, Raymond Reynaud, Y5-P5, Beth Love, Blex Bolex, Keiti Ota, Matti Hagelberg, Killoffer, Henriette Valium, Jean KOB

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RESOURCES
Le Dernier Cri Official website
Le Dernier Cri Shop
Le Dernier Cri Previews on MySpaceTV

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