1st May Friday Preview 6-9pm
Treatment of Dead Enemies — Jude Crilly and Laura O’Neill
SALUTE
“Terminal high, bevel base, fucked in lead-combat-semi-jacket
In excess of thought, there’s no signifiers and signs
But what is ketchup? if not putty, non-believers
… I am a little pea, puffing the city air” (JC)
SALUTE is an event for a live audience by Treatment of Dead Enemies (Jude Crilly and Laura O’Neill). It uses live sound, live spoken word, projection and video. Between us for you, from readers to listeners, our digital text reaches its recipients prior the event: pre-read, pre-played, prepared for you; an opened-source-open-dialogue.
The event plays in two parts simultaneously:
LIVE SPOKEN WORD (by Jude Crilly) flips between aphasic mantras, storytelling, recited free verse, and lucid explanation. The texts are delivered in different registers which signify a breakage of language and lapsed chronology. Language, as our way of labeling and systematizing the world (and understanding time), is de-stabalised and re-stabalised on its axis. By ripping up true words, an ever intensifying poetry emanates from within.
LIVE SOUNDTRACK (by Laura O’Neill) which uses stutter, resonances, rhythms, automatisms, loops, circuits and algorithms. Through these conflicting language modes they provoke and mislead each other to a point of hyperheckle. O’Neill volleys between digital coldness and intimacy, pushing against the natural laws of sound. The soundscape collapses into free fall, as a psychosocial garbage can.
In total, the audience experiences a flux between the dormant and hyperactive sonic space. Narratives from the artists’ practices, personal lives, as well as popular theories come together in a formal relationship. As performing bodies Crilly and O’Neill become avatars of themselves.
JC / LO 2015