26.08.10 'monuments to memory games' - solo show
Kotti Shop Gallery, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin, Germany.
Performance and Video and Installation.
'monuments to memory games' is an exhibition that examines ideas of 'play' in relation to memory and history through installation, video and live performance. The process of play is central to mmmmm's work. Through play they are engaged with issues of what is performance? What is the spectacle in performance? The documentation of performance. How to reconstruct histories in contemporary contexts, what evokes memory? How through engaging in play can the experience of memory and histories be made more empowering, more risky, more present?
30.07.10 The Weight of Things / Il peso delle Cose HD Video 30mins
La Divina Providencia, Nettuno, Italy.
This documentary/fiction film goes in pursuit of the collective body and considers ideas of nationhood, memory and archeology. The film was entirely made and produced during a one month residency at Rifrazioni Festival 2010.
29.07.10 The Beauty of Bureaucracy / La Bellezza della Burocrazia - Live Art action (2hrs)
Borgo Medievale, Nettuno, Italy.
The collective body becomes apparent through the process of molding a trace of the body, casting it, re-animating it with new people, marking its presence in a new trace, a new action.
Live performance in which the plaster casts of people's fingers from the film 'el peso delle cosa' together with the fingers of the artists and organisers of the residency are moved by children freely around the old town of Nettuno making a white trace line across the floor.
05.07.09 - 01.08.09 Residency in Rifrazioni Festival, Anzio, Italy
11.06.10 le corps collectif II - Live art action (2hrs)
nuitdencre galerie 64. 64 rue jean pierre timbaud 75011 paris.
materials: Atta Cephalotes (toasted giant ants from Columbia), whisky, dvd - 'courtship ritual of the Lantern Fly' (1 min) by mmmmm, HD video camera, Digital photograph camera, chocolate baguette, dvd player, 24" television. Electric guitar, amplified speaker.
06.06.10 Le Jardin Des Delices - Live art action (1hr)
La Cité des Insectes - Chaud 87120 NEDDE, Limoges, France.
these are the exhibits of 'The garden of earthly delights', served in a glass cabinet, over a lightbox and a layer of plaster fingers cast from the possibility of revolution.
04.06.10 - 06.09.10 La possibilité de révolution - solo exhibition
La Cité des Insectes - Chaud 87120 NEDDE, Limoges, France.
Site-specific installation exploring the possibility of revolution.
The artists work under a 'Tree of Liberty' planted around 1789 as a symbol of the French Revolution, making a one to one encounter with the museum visitors and workers. They take a mould of a person's finger, a trace of an intimate moment with a stranger.
They use the former communal Village bread oven as an exhibition space, placing plaster casts of the people's fingers, organising them in clear structures, organic piles, groups and individual units.
The installation reflects on and proposes a challenge to the way in which museums are structured and present objects. There are three traditional museum display cabinets placed in the space, the plaster fingers are inside and outside of them, in the former oven, in a bird's nest in the stone wall. The installation uses the technical equipment of science and museums such as a light box, a slide carousel, an inspection lens, to present different situations of the plaster cast fingers
01.06.10 L'envol du haneton (The take-off of the Cockchafer) (20 mins)
Live art action in Square Edouard VII 75009 Paris, France.
'Copulatory courtship and genital mechanics of three species of Macrodactylus' (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae)' Author: William G. Eberharda
materials: 2 x boiled eggs, 2 x 2m square blue cotton, 12 x 1.5m willow sticks, amplified speaker, cassette tape player, 2 x strings of plastic pearls.
22.05.10 - 06.06.2010 Artists in Residence
La Cité des Insectes - Chaud 87120 NEDDE, Limoges, France.
animations produced from participants at two workshops during the residency. http://lacitedesinsectes.com/evenements/73-mmmmm
23.04.10 Premiere of 'as the crow flies' (4 mins HD video) and performance with PNeuMatiKoS
La Société de Curiosités, 9 citÈ de trois bornes, 75011 Paris.
'as the crow flies' (4' HD video, 2010) - film made in collaboration with Gines Olivares.
PneuMatikos - Electroacoustic performance with Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro, Martin Bakero, Dan-Charles Dahan, Florencia Grisanti.
02.10.09 - 06.10.09 intermodality
CHaCO, Chile Contemporary Art Fair, Santiago, Chile.
video performance installation inside a container.
'the actual world is regarded as merely one among an infinite set of logically possible worlds, some "nearer" to the actual world and some more remote. A proposition is necessary if it is true in all possible worlds, and possible if it is true in at least one.' Leibniz possible worlds.
12.07.09 - 2.08.09 Residency in Rifrazioni Festival, Anzio, Italy
'The Festival, known as Rifrazioni, was born in 2006 as an international Summer Festival of Performance, Visual Arts and Music occurring every year in the historically relevant sites of Anzio and Nettuno. Both the towns overlook the sea of the southern coast of Lazio, 50 Km south of Rome.
Rifrazioni can be regarded as a contemporary art project, which recuperates the local archaeological heritage, re-defining its identity.
The Festival aims to diversify the cultural supply of the territory relying on interdisciplinarity and contamination between artistic languages and cultures; it endeavours to establish a free zone for the merging of disciplines, genres and codes.
Rifrazioni is a SITE-SPECIFIC Festival.
The works of art presented within the Festival are strongly informed by the territory that inspires and moulds them with its historical and socio-cultural specificity. Therefore Rifrazioni shifts into the territory elaborating and re-interpreting the local identity through the sight of the invited artists.' (Rifrazioni 09). http://www.rifrazioni.org
04.08.09 - Conference - ARTE E TERRITORIO
Forte Sangallo, Nettuno, Italy
In the review of the Rifrazioni Festival mmmmm presented a personal talk and viewpoint through photography of their work process and experiences during the residency.
02.08.09 Homo Gelato (3hrs)
Ex Divina Provvidenza - Nettuno, Italy
A performative/interactive celebratory bar concept in an Italian garden responding to the site. materials: bar installation, golden thread, apple, cube amplifier, microphone, wine, beer, water, candles.
01.08.09 L'Illusione Dell'Economia (22mins)
Porto Di Anzio - Molo Innocenziano, Anzio, Italy
In the ancient port of Anzio mmmmm examine the scale and materiality of the modern port. The local fishermen have to catch at least 70 large polystyrene palettes of fish to meet their basic wage. We carry 70 of these polystyrene palettes in two towers along the port before reconstructing them as a wall on a helicopter landing circle and then projecting live on the wall of boxes the revolving and evolving ritual.
31.07.09 non piú realtá (no more reality) (6mins)
Borgo Medievale di Nettuno – Piazza Colonna, Anzio, Italy
Film 6mins DVD PAL made during the rifrazioni residency examining local attitudes towards public space performances using canvas pig masks in collaboration between Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro and Ginés Olivares.
30.07.09 Cacchione On Canvas Dimension Variable (22mins)
Villa Imperiale di Nerone, Anzio, Italy
The local grape vine 'cacchione' is about to become extinct. mmmmm work to restore its presence in a ritual that examines the desexualised body and its relation to excess and mythology on the terrace of the former Villa of the Emperor Nero. mmmmm invited local sound artists to make the aural landscape.
18.06.09 PneuMatikos (40mins)
La Société de Curiosités, 9 citÈ de trois bornes, 75011 Paris.
multi-media performance exploring the inside and outside spaces of the society of curiosities with Martin Bakero and Dan-Charles Dahan as PneuMatikos.
17.06.09 inversion of a painting (18mins)
Galerie Deborah Zafman, 3-5 Passage des Granvilliers. 75003 Paris, France.
One of the paintings in the visual art show made by mmmmmm in the Gallery is explored in relation to the presence of the live artists in the Gallery space. The performance fuses time frames by rendering the memory of a previous performance in painting with a contemporary live action. The live artist is the inversion of the painting, the parts of her body exposed in the painting are covered in the live action with the same material; cigarette papers. Another artist eats and regurgitates a chocolate almond croissant finally dropping it from his mouth forming a new relic as it hits the floor.
11.06.09 - 20.06.09 Vacuuman
Galerie Deborah Zafman, 3-5 Passage des Granvilliers. 75003 Paris, France.
Visual art show from Luna Montenegro, Adrian Fisher and Martin Bakero exploring ideas of breath and the body on entering the vacuum. PneuMatiKos live performance on the opening night with quadraphonic sound in collaboration with Dan-Charles Dahan.
15.04.09 PneuMatiKos (30mins)
Casa Galería Taller del Colectivo Mapocho, General Mackenna 1038, Santiago, Chile.
In the heart of the Mapocho Pneumatikos explore the reflection of sound on a terrace overlooking the central City.
03.04.09 to 05.04.09 Obsidiana
Galeria AFA, Calle Phillips 16, Segundo Piso 16A, Plaza de Armas, Santiago, Chile.
We curated a show of 25 national and international artists in mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, painting, kinetic sculpture and performance. The Show explored ideas of communicating with other worlds through contemporary art and discourses. The title of the show refers to the Obsidian Mirror of John Dee who's 400 death anniversary was on the opening of the show. The Obsidian Mirror was used by the Aztecs to foresee the coming of magic and healing. It was then taken by the colonisers, led by Hernán Cortés, before being passed to Jon Dee. It is now installed in The British Museum, London, UK. Preliminary documentation is at: http://nocheobsidiana.blogspot.com/
27.03.09 'borgoña sobre tela, dimensiones variables' (19mins)
Ex-Carcel, Valparaiso, Chile.
We worked with chinchineros and an organillero in the creation of this work that fused chilean street folklore with questions of the role of performance art in the context of an ex-prison, sound was made by Lukax Santana. The Event was organised with the participation of Aaron Mullan (playing solo), Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelly, Jeremy Lemos and Matt Zivich who made a live sound track for the documentary film of the last functioning year of the prison which was projected on the wall of the old prison, directed by Cristóbal Vicente. preliminary documentation available at Flor.O blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/floro/sets/72157616147760218/
18.03.09 - 31.03.09 Kaisiya (Selk’nam VII) DVD black & white (5mins 46secs)
VIDEOPLAY 09 - Argentina, 'Electronic and Sensitive', curated by Silvio De Gracia, On VisualContainerTV - visualcontainer.twww.tv . VisualContainer P.O. Box 10631 20110
Milan Italy. www.visualcontainer.org Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
Feminarios at El Clan, Bombero nuñez 363, Bella Vista, Santiago, Chile.
The relationship is tested through the limits of excess. An equality is painted between the bodies through the mouth. The performance was made for 'Cóctel de Femme II' curated by Lissette Olivares, dedicamos este ciclo a recordar y revitalizar la mujer en sus multiples emanaciones Feminarios.
London Art Fair, Art Projects Space, with '3D Galleria' (Piazzale Candiani 31, Venice, Italy) Jan.14th to 18th, 2009. Business Design Centre, London N1.
Aurora was inspired by the illuminated 15th centuary alchemical manuscript: 'Aurora Consurgens'. A man attempts to suck milk from a woman's breast. There is no milk. The possibility of feeding, of nourishment is stopped. The continuity of life becomes a still point, a still life. It represents the end of capitalism, the end of the flows of money (liquidity). The man is left sucking, attempting to continue the actions that brought the flow of capital, but the breasts are empty. The action remains as a ritual, a meditation on what is missing. We also showed a new framed photographic work made in collaboration with photographer Ignacio Acosta.
2nd to 28th Dec 08 Rok (dvd 3 mins 10 secs, nov 07) in BAC! FESTIVAL , FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORANI A BARCELONA IX EDICIO, Centre De Cultura Contemporanea De Barcelona (CCCB), Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona, Spain.
She is the voice of commodity, she explodes with currency, her anger is the disaffection with the economic war machine, she is released in a bird like form, a myth in which to escape the circle of economic exchange value. Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
2nd to 28th Dec 08 Rok (dvd 3 mins 10 secs, nov 07) in Galeria AFA, Providencia, Santiago, Chile. (see description above)
12, 13, 14, 15.11.08 Kaisiya (Selk’nam VII) DVD black & white (5mins 46secs)
PLAY V man in transit, International Video & Performance Festival, Junín, Pergamino, Argentina.
Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
29, 30, 31.08.08 Kaisiya (Selk’nam VII) DVD black & white (5mins 46secs)
PERFORMANCE PRESENTE Y FUTURO
Videoplay 08, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Río de Janeiro, BRASIL
In a corner of a room an elephant turns on a metaphorical 'wheel of consumption'. A man eats a battered fish (commonly found all over the UK in 'fish and chip' shops). A woman wearing a mask made out of newspaper and potato chips appears to scream silently.
Kaisiya is inspired by Anne Chapman’s interviews with Lola Kiepja, the last surviving female shaman of the Selk'nam people in Tierra del Fuego. In the original ritual the shaman would chant for three or four days to bring food in the form of a dead whale to the beach. This allowed the main ritual of The Hain to commence. Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
17.08.08 Libre (15mins)
The White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London.
'Libre' considers the relations between language, technology and geopolitical boundaries. Libre is the taxi sign in Chile that shows when a taxi is free. Libre is explored through graphic images, dead languages, a cassette tape player machine, guitar, and the body.
14.03.08 Entremedio
Galeria AFA, Bucacrest 196, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro curated a show in the Galeria AFA developing the idea of the space 'inbetween'. The show of over twenty artists examined mediums of sound art, performance art, installation, video and photography. The work was installed with the intention of revealing the inbetween, exposing its borders, defining the cross-overs.
14.03.08 Hypothesis of Purification III (23mins)
Galeria AFA, Bucacrest 196, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
Bodily fluids are exchanged and sculptured between the two artists. The inside cavity of the mouth is cast and the tongue of language is stuck on the window. We are surrounded by speculation and the red flashing lights of construction cranes. The corn has its root in the soil, the most common indigenous food of South America.
16.02.08 lectura de poesia
Universidad Mayor Café Literario de la 'Feria del Libro Usado', Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
Poetry reading in collaboration with Foro de Escritores, Chile.
12.12.07 Pneumatikos (30mins)
Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière, 157, rue Saint Martin, Paris
Collaboration between mmmmm and Martin Bakero with Sandra Nicolle, on the occassion of the launch of Martin Bakero's book "Viceversa" in the vaults below the home of the French writer Molière.
08.11.07 Pneumatikos (20mins)
la Galerie les Singuliers, 138 Boulevard Haussman, Paris
Collaboration between mmmmm and Martin Bakero with Aurelia Balcells, on the occassion of the opening show of Mario Murua "Astrocanibal totaL". 'hojas', leaves are rising and falling, Urizen is waiting, pneumatik sounds spin with slippage, freestyle, free play, foreplay, intervention and dissemination.
04.10.07 The re-enchantment of identity and community (17mins)
25 Camberwell Church Street, London.
Cultural evapourations, the singer is gagged by language, the mystery of a satin blue bag, points for the economy, the canoes are close by, the sewing is nearly complete.
23.09.07 'a brief history of elephant' (20mins)
Pullens Centre, Elephant and Castle, London.
The name 'Elephant and Castle' probably derives from the emblem on the Cutlers' Company, a guild founded in the 13th century to represent workers who made knives, scissors and surgical instruments. The handles of these instruments often used Indian elephant ivory, hence the 'Elephant' image. The 'Castle' represents the 'howdah' a seat placed on the back of the elephant traditionally used by the hunters.
In 1641, a constant stream of horse-drawn vehicles led to a blacksmith, John Flaxman, setting up a forge on an island site between the main roads. Around 1760, the metal workers premises became an 'inn' and was renamed the 'Elephant and Castle.'
11.08.07 'something unaccountable escaping' (2hrs)
I Love Peckham 07, Festival of Arts, London.
Strangers are invited to paint their lips and kiss each other, then make a print of their lips in a book; 'The Book of Kisses'. Social preconceptions dissolve, power structures crumble, bringing the lips in contact with another being is a powerful social and sacred action.
16.06.07 'Shredding Rights' (2hrs)
Camberwell Festival of Arts, London.
Action in relation to 'The March of The Human Rights Jukebox' created by Isa Suarez. The route of the March was from Camberwell Green to Peckham Library. The live event was funded by Arts Council England and Camberwell Arts Festival.
18.05.07'Hypothesis of Purification and Exchange Part II' (22mins)
OBLIK 5 rue Trouillet 92110 Clichy, Paris, France. 10 years 0f OBLIK'
Water drips from the roof, bouncing and vibrating on the wooden table that squeals through a contact microphone. Flows, blockages, elation.
18.05.07 Pneumatikos (30mins)
OBLIK 5 rue Trouillet 92110 Clichy, Paris, France. 10 years 0f OBLIK'. Sound poetry dispersed across the wave organised by Martin Bakero, Marko Echeverria and others.
11.05.07 'Hypothesis of Purification and Exchange Part I' (18mins)
The Horse Shoe, 24 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R, UK.
The mouth of fire, to pour a gush, to offer in sacrifice. This work examines the relation between the two artists and the audience through making the body apparent beyond language and physicality. It was performed for an Event entitled; 'To a Friend whose work has come to nothing' curated by Natsuki Uruma.
24.03.07 Poetry Action with FDE in the Valparaiso house of Pablo Neruda. Centro Cultural La Sebastiana, Ferrari 692 (Avda. Alemania alt. 6900), Valparaiso, Chile.
22.03.07 Transantiago London Bus. Bar Los Vikingos, Pedro de Valdivia 3580, Santiago, Chile (20mins)
22.03.07 OSH (DVD) 18 mins. ArTeK - Corporación Cultural, arte & tecnología, Aguas Claras 1473 - Piso 1 Sur, Edificio La Quintrala, La Reina, Santiago - Chile
10.03.07 Gift (DVD) in Catorce/Quince FDE Book Launch containing poems by FDE writers including Luna Montenegro. Bar Rapa Nui, JM Infante Esq. Los Jesuitas, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
03.12.06 'Xalpen' (from The Selk'nam rituals, Tierra del Fuego) (23mins)
The Brick House, Old Trumans Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, UK.
A live art action by mmmmm commissioned by The Naked Punch Collective, on the occasion of the launch of issue 8 of 'Naked Punch', a stimulating and provocative journal covering Contemporary Art and thought. www.nakedpunch.com
23.10.06 to 4.11.06 - 'Primera Bienal de Performance DEFORMES' - The First Latin-American Performance Biennale, Santiago, Chile. We are showing three DVD works in the Bienal; OSH (18 mins) made in a former power station in Berlin based upon a Selk'nam fertility ritual, 'a true likeness of...' (12 mins) unedited recording of a live work made in the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and 'Gift' (8 mins) edited recording of a live work made in a former bread factory in Germany.
28.09.06 to 3.10.06 - Performance at KULE Auguststrasse 10, Berlin-Mitte, Interventions in Public Spaces in Berlin, Germany.
2.10.06 - 'chola' - a mmmmm film working with filmaker Gines Olivares in a former basement Jewish Bakery, Berlin. (3mins)
23.09.06 - 'Working the Docks' - Maritime Sheppey 2006, Blue Town, Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England. (30mins)
16.09.06 - 'Independents Biennial Liverpool 2006 (17mins) performance action in Museum MAN, 25 Parliament Street, Liverpool, curated by Adam Nankervis.
16.09.06 - Independents Biennial Liverpool 2006 performance actions and interventions in public spaces of Liverpool City Centre.
14.09.06 - mmmmm action in UK digital media conference technologies research project. Imperial College London. (40mins)
25.08.06 - 26.08.06 21:00 InterActions Project 2006 ARKA SPACE
via Tevere, 47 Assemini- Cagliari Sardinia - Italy (director: Massimo Zanasi) The London Biennale On Video. Videos by Arvinder Bawa Including 'The Tiger' and 'Echo and Narcisus' mmmmm art actions.
17.08.06 Performance Poetry Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro
Coningsby Gallery organised by Jon Gershon, 30 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RJ
01.07.06 - 15.07.06 Video Documentation Projection of 'The Tiger' and 'Echo and Narcisus'
Stu dio Ra* contemporary art - Via Bartolomeo Platina,1 F - 00179 Roma, Italia. DVD Projections of two mmmmm Live Art Actions filmed by Arvinder Bawa, 'The Tiger' and 'echo and narcissus' for The London Biennale 2004.
01.07.06 'The space of the very act of naming?' (22mins)
Saw Mill, Area 10, Eagles Wharf, Peckham, London. Camberwell Arts Week, 10 x 10 event curated by Marko Stepanov.
Materials: woven bag from Castro Market, Chiloe, wool from island in Chiloe woven into mask, white flowers Stoke Newington, water from Peckham, Extended light, switchable light, portable amplifier, microphone.
01.06.06 'enceinte' (24mins)
Bibliothèca National de France, Site François Mitterrand, Quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris, France. Collaboration with Martin Bakero.
Materials: sunglasses, battery powered portable amplified speaker, P.A. system speakers on heavy-duty trolleys, dark green netting, radio microphones, Japanese scaffold climbing boots.
Collaboration with sound poet Martin Bakero in the National Library of France for 'Le Marché de la Poésie' et sa Périphérie I'. 'enciente' has different meanings in the french language - 'pregnant' 'loud speaker'.
01.10.05 'engage the enemy more closely' (30mins)
SeaSheppey 2005 Maritime Festival, Blue Town, Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England.
Materials: postcards of Nelson, inflatable globe, flags for communication at sea, 'The Loss of a Hero (1805), The Fall of Nelson (english folk song), Signals flown at Trafalgar, cardboard box, mobile amplification system.
22.09.05 'Dog Save The Queen' (22mins)
The Klinker, The Ivy House Pub, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE15 3BE. Curated by Hugh Metcalfe.
Materials: wire dog mask, potatoes, pre-rolled cigarette, 'Y' front underwear, Electric guitar, upright piano, tea bags, The German Shepherd (book) by John Gordon, white Victorian night dress, Electrolux Turbo 2 Super upright vacuum-cleaner, sure sm58 microphone.
Purcell's fairest Isle is sung in a dog mask, the Glossary of Terms from a book on the German Shepherd is read from the letter 's'. A vacuum cleaner sonically collides with an electric guitar as it spins. Tea bags are pulled from the bust and digestives served. a cigarette is taken from the underpants and lit.
10.09.05 '... a true likeness of...' (21mins)
The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, London for 'Anywhere in the World, David Medalla's London' 6 - 11th September, 2005 curated by Guy Brett.
Materials: Fellowes P50CM paper shredder and basket, super bright LED battery light, 'The World Map', contact microphone, electronic keyboard, mini 'cosm' modelling combination amplifier, radio microphone, dark green Parker style coat, black evening tail jacket.
the phallus of the world is removed from the deity and shredded over the body. A transformation and reconfiguration of identity, signification and personal security.
28.08.05 evidence of a painting (30mins)
Bristol City Centre, Street Serenade Festival.
Materials: 3 x white polypropylene all-in-one suits, 20m blue satin, inflatable globe, 30m pink satin, black cotton all-in-one suit.
investigators searched the public space in Bristol City Centre for traces of a fictitious painting moving between Neptune and the falling steps to the harbour.
06.08.05 'inflating the geopolitical boundaries' (17mins)
Longshore Drift on Brighton Beach organised by Katie Sollohub
Materials: beach, sea, wind, breath, black full length zip-up suits, small cubic world representation, umbrella made to look like a satelite, 20m skyblue satin, mini marshall amplifier, radio microphone.
this action sought to work across different performative models involving live art, corporal mime and physical theatre. It was researched in the public space outside the Tate Modern in central London during July 2005.
17.07.05 16 mm (18mins)
Kilburn Festival, Tricycle Cinema, London for 'Your Voice' curated by Regine Elliot.
Materials: 16mm film spool with film and case (found in skip outside UCL, 1999), radio microphone, mini 'cosm' modelling combination amplifier, halogen light, dinner shirt, cocktail dress, high heeled shoes.
A halogen light strokes the artist beginning with her pointed heels, rising to her high cut dress, casting shadows that flicker the crystal on the screen. She uses a microphone as a stylus tracing a 16 mm film spool instead of an LP.
17.07.05 '100m pink satin' (2hrs)
Kilburn Festival, Kilburn Park, London for 'Your Voice' curated by Regine Elliot.
Materials: 100m pink satin fabric
A border line of bright pink is continually re-sketched across the Kilburn Festival with help from the Your Voice workshop directed by mmmmm.
16.05.05 Concreto Tropicalismo Genital (part III) (19mins)
The Klinker, The Ivy House Pub, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE15 3BE. Curated by Hugh Metcalfe.
Materials: 22m gold fabric, offcuts gold fabric, papier-mâché, adapted cardboard box, long silver ball neckless, boots, one clothes peg, Coat Tail jacket, Upright piano, guitar lead, Korg FX unit, Berhringer stereo monitors, PA System, Piano, sea salt, 2 x lizards, clip spot torch, Krypton bulb spot torch.
On the edge of Bach, sniffing, unwrapping, peeping, shaking, panting, rubbing, scratching, breathing, woof, chica, chica.
21.05.05 Choritos (20mins)
Cecil Sharp House, Regent's Park Road, Camden, London NW1. At 'May Fete with a Twist' event curated by Sarah Shorten and Alison Trower.
Mussels gathered at Borough Market underground station, canned mussels imported from Tierra del Fuego, Chile. 'In darkness let me dwell' (c.1605) written by John Dowland English folk song writer, sung live by Olivia Chaney. (materials: mussels (UK), canned mussels (Chile), willow basket, A1 paper, portable electric combination amplifier, microphone, Grand Piano, PA System, green netting, paint, underpants, bra, white dress).
Acknowledgements: The Kawéskar indigenous people of western Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
Hogarth House, Hogarth Lane, Chiswick, West London W4 2QN. At the opening of the Art show "Insula Ovinium" organised by Nicole Mollett.
Inspired by Hogarth's print 'The Enraged Musician' Part I, A wild experimental sound group invade the main A4 road outside Hogarth's house. The audience watch another audience, one that is passing, driving in cars and lorries. The band invades the road, it responds to the car sounds and changing enviroment of the highway. (materials: Laney combination amplifier, Electric guitar, audio-technica microphone, Korg fx unit, one hundred small bells, 3 x bird whistles, satin, netting, cotton, plastic flowers.)
Part II, Inside Hogarth's front room, people are blindfolded and an old English folk song is sung acoustically moving through the room, an ambient experience develops as the whole house becomes animated, shaking and reverberating. (materials: 30 x purple satin blindfolds, silver bowl, 2 x bird whistles, bells)
Part III 'Inhabitants of the moon, or Royalty, Episcopacy and Law' - in the garden a military man is wrapped by four women in 40 metres of pink and blue satin as he cleans his teeth and ignites 5 rocket fireworks. (20m pink satin, 20m blue satin, plastic flowers, flour, adapted military jacket, metal dog mask, silver box, 5 x rocket type fireworks, lighter.)
01.04.05 socrates dog (17mins)
The Klinker, The Sussex Pub, 107 Culford Road, London. Event Organised by Hugh Metcalfe and Foro de Escritores de Chile.
A wild calling for Socrates Dog, a trance is created through words and breath, a microphone is used to record the body like a stylus, the body becomes naked as it becomes more dog until the wire mask is grabbed from the keeper's bag and there is a joint chorus of estacy. (materials: wire dog mask, mini marshall amplifier, large marshall amplifier, radio mic, cabled mic, digital delay, rucksac.)
28.03.05 organic machine poetry (17mins)
Pembroke Studios, Pembroke Gardens, Earls Court, London. Event Organised by Foro de Escritores de Chile and Francesco Cincotta.
magnolia petals are used as pages for poems which are held in the mouth and ejaculated in the reading space. The poets crawl on all fours reading the random arrangements of the fallen petals. (materials: magnolia petals, marker pens, portable small electric keyboard, red coats.)
23.03.05 goats milk is a healthy and nutritious alternative (15mins)
Studio 40/42, Kingsgate Workshops Trust, 110-116 Kingsgate Road, West Hampstead, London. Event organised by Regine Elliot and Marisol Cavia, evening of performance and poetry at 'Hidden Voices' show.
A point of reflection and meditation, a reconsideration of the symbolic logic of the gendered body. (materials: 50 neck ties, carton of goatsmilk, white cream paint, washing up bowl, stereo amplified speakers, microphone, 3 red work coats.)
29.01.05 mmmmm participation in Pneumatikos (25mins)
gallery Zombra, 7 Rue Crussol 75011, Oberkampf, Paris, France. Event organised by Martin Bakero.
sound body experiments - digital, plugged, un....., flurrry weather, Socrates dog is speaking, electric guitar and crispy biscuits. A night of air exploring improvised sound poetry and bodily reactions, interventions.
27.11.04 agua-lengua (15mins)
Nicaragua Solidarity - a charity event supporting an education and sanitation project, Red Rose, 129 Holloway Road, London, UK
Politics and poetics of the body, naked bodies in militia hats explore The Tongue as a power for transformation, a ritualistic proto-organ that emerges, extends and falls. Accompanied by Pedro del Canto.
06.10.04 fucking hardware (12mins)
Curwen Gallery, 4 Windmill Street, London, UK, 'Here - and Beyond' Show, event organized by Jill Rock.
The organic combines with the inorganic in a spectacle of electronic aspiration and physical sensuality. A ritual is constructed in which a man holding a computer above his head is lubricated by a woman who becomes a bride. From the inside of the computer box they explore belief systems on the origin of life and desire. The ritual finishes in an experiment testing the resilience of computer hardware to the organic. Will the computer function with freshly cracked egg on its motherboard ?
17.09.04 chorizo (25mins)
Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool, UK, in 'Museum MAN' event organized by Adam Nankervis.
chorizo: a friend, or almost a mussel, almost a vagina, almost a professional robber. Derived from the prison slang of Valparaiso, Chile. Under the street corner sodium light mmmmm lick and stick cigarette rolling papers over their bodies, with participation from audience. The bodies are covered in what seem to be butterflies. Adrian Fisher+Luna Montenegro licking on the potentially flammable, peeling away like angels in a tempest' (Review by Adam Nankervis, Performance Artist.)
20.08.04 The Tiger (20mins)
The Foundry, 84-86 Gt Eastern Street, Old Street, London, UK. Event organised by Marisol Cavia for the opening of 'Eros Arrows', part of The London Biennale 2004
'Please be calm, It's a real Tiger' (from Nicolas Guillen, Poet, Cuba, 'The Great Zoo' 1967). In a former bank, mmmmm used their mouths to cast their tongues, placing them on a gold record, spinning them on a record deck, turned by a finger, making sound from an amplifier between Luna Montenegro's legs at variable speeds.
14.08.04 Art of War (16mins)
Rockhouse Gallery, Isle of Sheppey, UK. "Insula Ovinium" - Art & Performance event organized by Nicole Mollett
Review by David Medalla, Performance artist.
mmmmm (consisting of Chilean poet Luna Montenegro and English artist Adrian Fisher) performed a dramatic piece entitled "Art of War" on the grass-grown ampitheatre in front of the Rockhouse a couple of metres from the sea. Adrian, dressed in the military uniform of a tin-pot dictator, heavily laden with spurious medals, strutted in exaggerated goose-steps, with one hand up raised in the Heil Hitler salute, around the statuesque figure of Luna wrapped entirely, at the start of the performance, in a silken chatreuse-red cloth. Gradually Adrian (the Dictator) unravelled the cloth, on which he laid supine facing the figure of Luna dressed in a bright green see-through netting dress, surmounted by a green structure on her head. Luna, like a goddess of the jungle, gradually advanced towards the figure of the dictator, and (to the surprise of the spectators who watched the performance in silence) Luna pissed on the chest of the supine Dictator. "I grew up in Chile at the time of the dictator Pinochet," said Luna Montenegro afterwards, "and I will piss any time on any dictator anywhere".
13.08.04 echo and narcissus (20mins)
Brompton Cemetery. Old Brompton Road, London, UK. "All for Love" event organized by Jill Rock, as part of The London Biennale 2004
'here' 'h......ere' 'come' 'cum' 'why are you avoiding me ?' '...... are you avoiding me ?'
10.08.04 diplomacy - wine on canvas 0.3m x 0.3m (18mins)
Embassy of Brazil, 32 Green Street, Mayfair, London, UK. 'draw_drawing' show organised by Giacomo Pica, part of The London Biennale 2004
In the heart of Mayfair mmmmm practice diplomacy through wine. Inspired by Jacques Lacan's 'A triumph of the gaze over the eye.' (From 'The Line and Light' in'The Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis', first published in GB in 1977.)
13.02.04 Tom Jones (40mins)
Pan de Azucar, 3rd Region, Chile
Along the coast of Chile are small fishing villages. In Caleta Pan de Azucar the fishermen are mainly divers collecting sea urchins. We made a performance inspired by the mythology of the fishermen and their relation to the indigenous coastal people 'Changos' from 6000 years ago.
17.01.04 'El beso de la lagartija' (6hrs)
Plaza El Descanso to the Ex-Cárcel (Ex-Prison), Valparaiso, Chile.
Working for 6 weeks in the colonial old prison of Valparaiso mmmmm worked with local artists to make a contemporary kiss of the lizard. A climb through the ruins of Pompey with poems and music and dance, a tango, a lizard, bird whistles in the darkness, fairy lights and rock guitar, a squeaky kiss, pepper trees, and more...........
3.12.04 to 21.01.04 X-Carcel Investigaciones (2hrs)
Ex-Prison, Valparaiso, Chile
We made a 6 week residency in the former Spanish colonial prison of Valparaiso. The prison was closed 4 years ago. During our time in the prison we made several digital works and a public live experiment work on 3rd January, 2004.
18.09.03 'Wankoska - low tide of dawn' (Selk'nam III) (20mins)
Kiron Espace, 10 rue de la Vacquerie, Paris 75011, France (as part of '..en homage a l'ex-President du Chilli, M. Salvador Allende')
To mark 30 years since the death of Salvador Allende a Selk'nam Shoort tests the genitals of a Kloketen, the Kloketen then cleans his mouth with a Chilean coloured toothbrush, they shout 'xas'.
04.09.03 'Still Life' (18mins)
Umspannwerk, Paul-Linke Ufer 20-21, Kreuzberg, Berlin (as part of the Changing Channels London Biennale Pollination)
Down through the glass roof and illuminated by candles two lives roll on frames pushed by a female projector. The camera is naked behind the eyepiece with a mobile phone strapped to the penis that vibrates when the still lives cross frames. At basement level they compose and flash.
23.08.03 'Osh' (Selk'nam II) (22mins)
Umspannwerk, Paul-Linke Ufer 20-21, Kreuzberg, Berlin (as part of the Changing Channels London Biennale Pollination)
The phallic ritual of 'Osh' from the Selk'nam people starts with two bodies on a tandem bicycle. A 15 tonne crane carries the objects between the two people. The crane becomes the phallus and explodes its fragility in the sterilization and then fertilization of a Chilli pepper.
22.08.03 'Gift' (25mins)
Backfabrik, Saarbrucker Str. 36, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin. (as part of the Changing Channels London Biennale Pollination) a former baking factory courtyard becomes a poetic phallus in the gold wrapping of three Turkish bread faced and ashes covered naked people whose mask slowly decomposes under a waterfall, golden beads are pulled from their mouths and the libertines drive off in cars.
20.07.03 'Why does desire desire its own repression..?' (1hr) (Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)
between The Southbank and Trafalgar Square, London. the public space is redefined in a 3 hour live art action with 30 metres of light blue satin, 8 insulation pipe tubes and a mini dv camera.
11.12.02 mmmmm clear spot (1.5hrs)
one and a half hours in the landscape of mmmmm on resonance fm 104.4 and www.resonancefm.com
28.09.02 Concreto Tropicalismo Genital II (20mins)
for East End Collaborations, Queen Marys College, London, Live performance with installation.
16.08.02 Hop Ke Kep (Selk'nam I) (18mins)
in The London Biennale, 291 Gallery, London. A former church becomes the venue for an initiation ritual derived from the Hain ceremony devised by the Hunter Gathering culture recently made extinct in Tierra del Fuego, Southern Chile.
21.06.02 to 28.09.02 bobs cabaret
The Old Whitten Timber Yard a series of regular Thursday night all night happenings inside 'Area 10' mmmmm in collaboration with Jack Pixley. mmmmm solo pieces included: 'hair cut suck' 'dog' 'dissection by filament'. Area 10 is an artist led initiative.
18.11.2001 1930's Sonic Party (30mins)
LMC Studios, London live performance with internet web broadcast
29.06.2001 Squirrel (23mins)
Beaconsfield Art Gallery for 'Club' London
live performance Installation
January 2001 'pick up' (40mins)
Santiago, Chile
(collaboration with Isabel Croxato dance Group)
digital video
13.12.00-20.01.00 Concreto Tropicalismo Genital (20mins)
Belo.Horizonte, Brazil. Rebel Ikons,
Palacio das Artes
Installation and performance
05.10.2000 Buch der Kuesse (2hrs)
Vienna, Austria
interactive performance
http://mmmmm/sonance.net
24.09.2000 Fish and Chips (23mins)
UNESCO, Cimelice Castle, Czech Rep.
Performance
19.09.2000 Gold Record (22mins)
NOD, Prague, Czech Rep. Prague in Action Festival
performance
19.08.2000 to 30.08.2000 dsm
London, England ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art
dsm, collective dweller
vaquero, performance
electro, performance
genital speakers, performance
plug in, video
inflatable sound pool, installation
http://dsm.sonance.net
19.07.2000 Juicy (18mins)
Loughborough Hotel, London, England. Artery Event, Organized by Monica Miranda.
, performance
19.04.2000 Why Not Eat Insects? (50mins)
Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy.
Performance with Progetto Tutti
28.03.2000 Camouflage (1hr)
Diogenes, Soho, London, England.
Performance
02.02.2000 El Libro de los Besos (2hrs)
Plaza de Armas, Santiago, Chile
interactive performance
28.01.2000 territorio de higos (25mins)
Plaza de Armas, Santiago, Chile
performance
23.01.2000 sandia y caballos (17mins)
Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
performance
19.01.2000 to 30.01.2000 Encuentro de Pueblos Indigenas Santiago, Chile
15.01.2000 pescados amarillos (20mins)
MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC)
performances
19.01.2000 salta pescado (15mins)