Showing posts with label Trans/Wizje. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trans/Wizje. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2013

Cotton Ferox return to Poland


On November 17th, Cotton Ferox will play in Warsawa, Poland, at the Trans-Wizje festival. Incidentally, it was on the same date 12 years ago that Cotton Ferox played live for the very first time (at Fylkingen in Stockholm). To celebrate this magical cycle, Highbrow Lowlife will re-release the first Cotton Ferox album, First Time Hurts, in the digital ether on November 21st.




Here's some information culled from the Polish site:

Miejsce: Laboratorium CSW, ul. Jazdów 2, Warszawa
Bilety: 55 zł. (do 17 października) / 66 zł. (po 17 października)
Start: 17 listopada 2013, godzina 17.00


I also have a text in the most recent issue of the Trans-Wizje magazine, which will be launched on Sunday, about the strange relationship between human beings and dolls:

"The eerie and sometimes even terrifying encounter with glassy eyed porcelain dolls or even mute teddy bears, especially when one sees many of them at the same time, clearly distinguishes the thin line between death and magical life. By mere will, an inanimate object can go from being a scary-zombie-voodoo-horror film-nightmare item to something that is "cute", "cuddly" and, not forgetting, "mine". And then also integrated in harmonious playing, alone or together with friends. It's what the human imagination invests in the object that makes it come alive."

I hope to see you in Warsawa on Sunday!


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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Atlantean Art & Occult Poland


I hope to see you in Gdansk, Poland, this weekend, Friday the 13th (!) to Sunday the 15th. I'll be lecturing (well, speculating is probably a more apt term) about Aleister Crowley and Rudolf Steiner at the Lashtal Press Conference, and look forward to that a lot. Gdansk is a beautiful city and I have dear memories from when Cotton Ferox played there in 2008.

Speaking of which, Cotton Ferox will return to Poland on the 17th of November, to perform at the Trans/Wizje festival in Warsawa. More news on this event will follow as we get closer to the date. I will also have an article in the issue of T/W that will be released for/at the festival. The theme of the article is the human being's need for magical play, externalized through dolls of various kinds. The theme of the concert, however, will be something completely different: temporary dissociation. "What else is new?", right?

Alchemy, antimodernism, anachronism or just Atlantean art?
I try to keep up with the art world (but often fail), and I become very happy when I occasionally come across something that is in every way "art" and not just a shallow, mental exercise. Christine Ödlund has now turned Galleri Riis in Stockholm into a plantation site for her stinging nettles, complete with audio amplification, beautiful drawings and animated films. In all, and as usual, a unique vision executed in a superb and creative way. When you feel you've entered a total environment and a magical energy field that is uniquely the artist's, then that's truly a reason to rejoice! The question remains though: what are the nettles actually saying to each other?

You can read more about this phenomenal exhibition right here!


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