thursday 26 MARCH 09
DAVE PHILLIPS (zurich) quote’ dave phillips must really be a very sick man if he’s anything like his explorations into audio insanity, that are severed up here still twitching to the unsuspecting listener. he mixes all manner of cut up sound, noise, unpleasant & sickly ambience, silence & almost silence . Then fires it all like a soundrollercoaster ride into your mind….’
co-founder of hardcore-extremists FEAR OF GOD in 1986, solo-works since 1987, part of the SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE since 1991 (with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, G*Park etc.), founder of OHNE in 2000 (with Tom Smith, Daniel L\’9awenbr\’9fck, Reto M\’8ader), since 2004 one-man-doom-project DEAD PENI.\
www.myspace.com/dpdavephillips
ONEMANNATION (singapore) a performance that transmitted a deep narrative feeling of geopolitical disenchantment, ingrained into dark textures. This disenchantment exists on more levels than purely narrative, it is exorcised by the use of every part of my body as a whole, that presence with the inclusion of the sounds produced by the intended or accidental gestures and physical actions - everything is technology making anything and everything potentially an instrument, a source of sound, a critique - the avoidance of a priori drawn ways, ontologically reinventing the possibilities of life, and as a living performer/artist, exploring all the possibilities in the here, in the now. One Man Nation aka Marc Chia (b.1982, Singapore) is currently living in Rotterdam finishing his post-graduate in Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute. He has collaborated in his short little lifetime with practitioners of various disciplines such as C-drik Fermont, Damo Suzuki, Zai Kuning, Mindfuckingboy, Olaff Kehler, Richard Scott, Katie Duck, Alfredo Genovesi, Soopa Collective and Pierre Bastien.
