Event
Negativland's "It's All in Your Head FM"
In a rare public appearance with their first live performances in over five years, Negativland brings their weekly radio show, OVER THE EDGE (now in its 24th year on Berkeley's KPFA FM), to Seattle's Consolidated Works for the very first time, in a stage show mixing music, sounds, voices, "personalities" and sound effects into a "theatre of the mind," just as they do in their live radio broadcasts.
The show, "It's All In Your Head FM", is a two-hour-long stereophonic look at monotheism in all its fundamental forms worldwide, and the all-important role played by the human brain in believing them. Dr. Oslo Norway is the founder of an all-new radio network, and his provocatively-reasoned position of God-less objectivity can actually start arguments. Is monotheism now doing more harm than good? Christianity and Islam are this year's featured religions as Negativland asks you to contemplate some rather complex ideas about our brains' beliefs in "documentary collage" form.
Okay, sounds great, but what, you still ask, is Negativland exactly? That's hard to answer.
Negativland definitely isn't a "band," though they may look like one if you see their CDs for sale in your local shopping mall. They're more like some sort of goofy yet serious
European-style artist/activist collective - an unhealthy mix of John Cage, Lenny Bruce, Pink Floyd, Bruce Connor, Firesign Theatre, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Rauschenberg, 1970's German electronic music, old school punk rock attitude, surrealist performance art, your high school science teacher and lots more.
Since 1980, the 4 or 5 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, fine art, film, video, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and
text. Mixing original materials and music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture, Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural opposition and "culture jamming" (a term coined by Negativland in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. 2005 marked their 25th anniversary of being together as a group with a host of new projects - a new CD/book ("No Business" on Seeland Records), a large art show ("Negativlandland", at Gigantic Art Space in New York City last
September, now at Consolidated Works in Seattle, and in May at Creative
Electric Studios in Minneapolis), and a brand new live show "It's All In Your Head FM." Look for a feature length DVD and more live performances in 2006.
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LocationConsolidated Works
500 Boren Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
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