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[Commlist] New book: Entry Points. Resonating Punk, Performance, and Art

Fri Mar 08 15:52:10 GMT 2019






Now available for direct ordering and/or free download…

Entry Points. Resonating Punk, Performance, and Art
Stevphen Shukaitis, Penny Rimbaud, Dharma, and Awk Wah

Art-media project exploring resonances between punk and performance in the UK and Southeast Asia

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as members of the performance art group EXIT, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher turned to creating outside of the gallery system and artistic conventions. Taking inspiration from eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, they searched for ways to push beyond the boundaries of Western art practices and rationalities. This resonates with Redza Piyadasa and Suleiman Esa’s 1974 manifesto and exhibition Towards a Mystical Reality, which likewise sought to find a way out of the limitations of modernist art practices and rationalities. Entry Points takes up Piyadasa’s statement that art does not exist in time but only has entry points. What entry points might we find in the resonances between different attempts to utilize conceptual and performative gestures as a way to escape from the constraints one is faced with, aesthetically and politically?

Contains an essay by Stevphen Shukaitis, a dialogue between Shukaitis and Penny Rimbaud, and a recording of an improvised performance by Dharma and Awk Wah responding to footage of the Stop the City Protests.

Bios: Stevphen Shukaitis is a cultural theorist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. Penny Rimbaud, is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass. Dharma was the guitarist of The Observatory for the first 7 albums. In 2013, he released his solo debut, Intergranular Space. Awk Wah is the solo project of Shark Fung, a prolific Mandopop songwriter in his youth who later spent time playing drums in band like Engineered Beautiful Blood, Amino Acid Orchestra and I\D.

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=949

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now for the special price of £10.

Released by Minor Compositions & Ujikaji Records, 2019

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.

52 pages, Risograph printed artist book with CD
Edition of 200

Ujikaji is an independent music label and organizer of DIY music events. Ujikaji means “experiment” in Malay, and the label’sinterests lie in the curation of experimental music, with a special focus on Southeast Asian artists and sounds.

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