Thursday the 11th at 20:00
iLLUSEUM
entrance 5,-
Limited seats, please reserve !Dear People We would like to have your full attention for the following event hosted by iLLUSEUM: The people of FREEDOM CENTRAL will be present to share the fruit of their amazing and brave work:
T H E M E S S A G E
There is so much to be said from a personal and nostalgic perspective, about
this, our first feature length documentary. For those of you who are unfamiliar
with our work, we are Freedom Central. We provide a platform for information not
provided to you by the main stream media. We have no bosses or paymasters and
our work has proven dangerous at times.In October 2009, when Freedom Central was in it?s infancy, having completed only
three interviews, one with David Icke, we were attacked after a conference in
Brussels where we had conducted interviews with Marcel Messing, Bill Ryan and
Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, Stephen Bassett of the Exopolitics movement,
Peter Vereecke who is known as the “chem trail mayor from Belgium” amongst
several others. This attack involved us being gassed in our sleep and our media
equipment being taken from us.This was our darkest hour. We had given up everything after we had gone through
a full awakening of consciousness to do this work, and now all our equipment was
gone and we were hardly in a position to replace it. But it is when we are faced
with adversity that we excel as human beings. Due to the unconditional love of
several complete strangers, who heard of our troubles and lovingly helped us
replace part of our media equipment, we were able to make this film. We then
managed to obtain some spectacular interviews with some of the most
inspirational people in the world today some of whom came into our lives with
such beautiful synchronicity. All these interviews are available on our website
to view.It was an honor and a pleasure to be blessed with the time of the likes of
Patricia Cori and David Icke twice, then there is our dear friend and fellow
light worker Charlie Veitch of the Love Police, as well as obtaining an amazing
two and a half hour interview with Bill Ryan of Project Camelot, not to mention
a very moving interview with the magnificent Marcel Messing. These people have
taught us so much in the information they have allowed us to capture, that we
were able to become very intimate with this material, to discover a thread of
constancy that kept coming up amongst all of these wonderful and inspiring
people who had shared their time with us.With this collective montage of concentrated wisdom, Freedom Central humbly
brings you THE MESSAGE.
http://freedomcentral.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=75&Itemid=102
Love and Light
Richard & Melafter the film there will be time and space for dialogue on "The Message"
Het iLLUSEUM is er trots op van twee verwante kunstenaars / cineasten heel bijzondere filmische documenten te mogen presenteren:
the iLLUSEUM is proud to present 2 special, kindred spirits that made 2 documentaries about a fairly recent 'secret' past of Am*dam:
Jeanette Groenendaals'
De Nederlandsche Cocaïne Fabriek
The Dutch Cocaine Factoryproductie: Jeanette Groenendaal
camera: Jeanette Groenendaal, Martin Hansen, Zoot Derks, Robin Noorda, Jeroen Weeda, Omar Wilson
montage: Jeanette Groenendaal, Martin Hansen, Zoot Derks, Jan Dries Groenendijk
geluid: Zoot Derks, Martin Hansen, Jeanette Groenendaal
cast: Arend, Leon van Kleef, Ton Nabben, Damián Zaitch* English subtitles *
De Nederlandse Cocaïne Fabriek sleept ons mee in het wereldbeeld van een 63-jarige weledelgeboren cocaïnegebruiker. Hoofdpersoon Arend wordt afgeluisterd en bespied. Hij verdenkt de informatiemaatschappij. Ze houden elkaar nauwlettend in de gaten via internet, telescoop en verrekijker. De film volgt Arend richting 'Solutions', met onderweg een poging om een oud Nederlands bedrijf nieuw leven in te blazen: de Nederlandse Cocaïne Fabriek (tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog was Nederland de grootste producent van kwaliteitscocaïne). Ook is er een feest bij Erwin Olaf, waar decadent uitgedoste gasten zich te goed doen aan coke. De kracht van de beelden, de structuur van de film en de onwaarschijnlijkheid van de gebeurtenissen doen denken aan fictie. Maar het documentairedebuut van Jeanette Groenendaal vertelt de waarheid en niets dan de waarheid.
"Er is een urgente noodzaak om het verhaal van de Nederlandse Cocaine Fabriek te onderzoeken. Via een documentaire methode inspireren en reflecteren de karakters en situaties op feiten die de fantasie te boven gaan. Realiteit krijgt een klein duwtje in haar rug om de fantasmagoria van de protagonist te evenaren, een staat van bewustzijn die niet door velen zal worden be-experimenteerd." (Moniek Toebosch)
A DasArts Final
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2007 (wereldpremière), Celluloid / Digitaal 6 Cinema de Balie Amsterdam 2007 (preview), SIDOF Independent Documentary Film & Video Festival Seoul 2008, WATCH DOCS Festival Warsaw 2008, De Brakke Grond Amsterdam 2008, TEK Film Festival Rome 2008, DOCSDF International Documentary Film Festival Mexico City 2008, Dockanema Festival Maputo Mozambique 2008, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival 2008
Onderdeel van Filmbank tourprogramma #18 “For Your Own Safety” maart – mei 2008 Nederland / Duitsland
distributie: distributiecollectie
At the heart of Jeanette Groenendaal’s Dutch Cocaine Factory resides Arend ter Horst, a 63-year-old cocaine addict who betrays all the signs of acute paranoia. It becomes very clear early on in the film that this paranoia is far from misplaced.
‘I was shocked to read [transcripts of] the telephone calls that I had made to Arend,’ explains Groenendaal. ‘I always thought fear of telephone taps was just paranoid, and that I had nothing to hide, but when I read back everything, that was when I decided to make this film.’
So Groenendaal commences a documentary journey with Arend that reveals the terrifying degree of surveillance – or ‘digital chasing’, as a Dutch lawyer refers to it – that takes place within the Netherlands. ‘I took my camera along because I wanted to find out what was going on; what was right and wrong. And was I a suspect as well?’ En route, she tells the story of the original Dutch cocaine factory which, in the 1920s, imported up to 2 million pounds (900 tons) of cocoa leaves per year to fire an extremely profitable – and perfectly legal – industry. Cocaine wine was delivered to the Pope and the American president, who commented on the ‘excellent mood’ it created. Eventually the US, unable to break into the lucrative cocaine trade, introduced a prohibition whose global influence became endemic.
The character of Arend fills the film. The CCTV footage of the police raid on his house at the beginning is genuinely shocking. Later in the film, he calls ‘cut!’; an instruction taken on board in a filmic sense by Groenendaal, until she realises that it’s the cocaine that he wants cut, not the camera. The footage of his withdrawal from its use is disturbing, but he reveals a deliciously dry humour when assessing the substitute substances deployed to bulk out the coke. ‘It’s no longer the real thing,’ he observes.
‘I think he is a visionary,’ comments Groenendaal. ‘In India, a person on the edge of society who has been using drugs for forty years would be a holy man. In our past in Holland, we have given space to these people to grow and experiment. Now, within this new, controlled society, we are suddenly criminalising them.’
Nick Cunningham »
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"LOLA's English Lessons "
(2008, .Valerie Schepper, Netherlands/Latvia, 70min.)
The new Lola film is something unusual,where one cannot and does not want to separate documentary from fiction,social realism from surrealism, tragedy from comedy.
Lola lives in a squat in the Red Light district of Amsterdam.
She is a young illegal Russian immigrant, . How does she see the world around her? How does she survive? Through the magic camera of the Latvian arist Valerie Schepper, we enter the free Amsterdam of the early 90's with its street music and underground life.
This unique chronicle of a time forever lost is the result of years of painstaking cutting down the hundreds of hours of footage, Schepper has shot following Lola on her poignant & lonesome quest.
Lola's english Lessons is een prachtige kroniek van een bijzondere tijd in de geschiedenis van Amsterdam. Hoewel duister, was dit tijdsgewricht kenmerkend voor een enorme vrijheidsdrang en kruisbestuiving. Tot op de dag van vandaag blijkt deze inspirerend. De mogelijke reden waarom we niet zonder enige melancholie en ver- & be-wondering naar Lola kunnen kijken. Het is een uniek poetisch videodocument van de Letse, in Nederland wonende , kunstenaar Valerie Schepper. Hij volgde Lola indertijd op de voet, met zijn videocamera en nam jaren de tijd om deze tragicomedie tot een waar juweel te edit-en.
Veel al in het absurde decor van de gekraakte Patapoebar op de Amsterdamse wallen bevolkt door lieden van divers pluimage volgen we het leven van Lola.
Haar dramatische verwikkelingen zijn niet gespeelt al lijkt dit soms wel zo.
Bijzonder ook is de memorial ( voor Arkadi Len) performance van de legendarische obscurantistische groep ZYKLUS ( met Grace de la Luna, Gerard Riksen ) , die ooit de bakermat vormde voor het huidige iLLUSEUM!
Een ander aardig detail is de verschijning van Jeanette Groenendaal als bardame van de Patapoebar!
Beide films worden bijgewoond en ge- introduceerd door de makers, van wie ook een speciaal optreden zal worden verwacht...........
Both documentary makers will be there in person to introduce the film & to give a special 'acte de presence'..........
!!!HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE THERE AS WELL!!!English subtitles / russian /engish spoken
Aanvang 20:00 Entree: 7.50
Reserveren aanbevolen/ reserve in time!
Limited seats.
iLLUSEUM
Witte de Withstraat 120
1057 ZH AmsterdamMaandag / monday 21 - 12 - 2009 * 20:00
Lieve Mensen / Dear People
U bent allen van harte welkom op deze bijzondere 1000 en 1 nacht - avond met wonderschone muziek. Dit zal tevens stiekem onze 8ste verjaardag zijn waarin we de leeftijd bereiken waarop ons een blik in de e8uwigheid gegund is...
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You are all cordially invited to what is also 'secretly' the iLLUSEUM's eighth' birthday. A 1001 night full of wonderfully beautiful music in which we will enter the age of 8ternity:
ARIFA
"from Istanbul to Amsterdam"Ud genious Mehmet Polat after the experiences with Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and Theo Loevendie now brings the tasteful blending between the music of Turkey, Balkans, Middle East, and Live Electronics.
The group is based in Amsterdam. The name “Arifa” stands for “indescribable brilliance and uniqueness”. Discover 4 virtuosos ! Traditional, original and improvised music beyond the borders of 4 continents.
Mehmet Polat (Turkey) Ud Alex Simu (Romania) Clarinet, Sax & Laptop
Kanun Sjahin During (Turkey/Holland) Afro Anatolian percussionwww.myspace.com/listenArifA
http://www.mehmetpolat.net
http://www.myspace.com/havantrio
http://www.myspace.com/listenArifA
http://www.mehmetpolat.netLook at some of the history of the iLLUSEUM at:
http://www.illuseum.com/archive/archive.htm
( still in progress )entrance 7eur50
door open 20:00
Dreaming of the Snow Palace?
Well....THAT seems to belong only to the past that already passed .........AND............... to the imagination we can ALL share
on
December the 4th
MURUGALAS will present his NEW wintercollection considering the Global Warming
....a SILK FANDANGO.........to dream the Future as Real & Romantic........
Despite Rain & Nastiness...DO come!
!! Get your favorite future garments & don't worry ...you CAN afford them !!
You won't regret to experience the Warmth & Coolness of this fine man's creations
at the ever surprising iLLUSEUM.
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Doors open at 20h00, entrance fee €5,-
Live Dreamscapes by McKenzie & guests
Stimulating Snacks by Mexican Rosa.
!! Be welcome & Bring your dear friends !!
www.illuseum.com www.murugalas.com
Watch Murugarren's latest show at iLLUSEUM : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1ACWW3jG0&feature=player_embedded
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We are so proud & happy to have the alchemical beauty of Steven Johnson Leyba's magnificent paintings at the iLLUSEUM.
On the 28th it will be your last chance to meet the artist before he goes back to the US.
Leyba will be doing a spoken word performance accompanied by Erix van Pelt & Jeroen Visscher.
His latest documentary will be shown in 2 parts 'What is Art?: Inside the Mind of the Artist as They speak the Truth.'
http://www.youtube.com/user/LeybaArtAlso a special live interview / symposium with the artist will be held on Parrhesia by Helena Remeyers Molhoek ( Bonne Matin )
The evening will be filmed by Dionysos Andronis ( gr/ fr ) being part of his documentary on Steven Johnson Leyba
doors open: 20h00 entrance 6,-
“What is Art? Inside the Mind of the Artist as They Speak the Truth”
is a documentary by the controversial American painter/ writer/ performance artist Steven Johnson Leyba www.stevenleyba.comDefying the world?s Post Modern premise that “everything is art” he not only dares to ask, “What is Art? but he asks “What is TRUE ART?”
Scientist Howard Bloom (Lucifer Principle, Global Brain) says in the film, “The first two rules of art and science; The truth at any price including the price of your life and look at things right under your nose as if you?ve never seen them before, then proceed from there.”
“It's important for everyone to specifically state what art is because if “everything is art” then NOTHING is art. Even if when it comes down to one persons opinion or it contradicts others opinions or defies the "official" acceptable definition of what we are taught to always believe. Keep in mind that if someone says "THIS IS ART" and passionately says why it is it sparks others to do the same or to get upset about it. This is what art used to do, but now post-political correct speech all people ESPECIALLY artists are afraid to say what art is and to speak of what they are passionate about. I've lost many friend over this. The critics, money people, museums and art schools have dictated long enough what ART is. Now it?s time for TRUE artists to take it back!”
- Steven Johnson Leyba
While most argue no one can ever define art much less TRUE ART Leyba does just that. In the process, much to the disdain of others he create a TRUE ART list and says TRUE ART can be mathematically measured.
TRUE ART LIST;
AWARENESS (MINDFULLNESS)
AUTHENTICITY (GENUINE)
INTENTION
ACTION
UNIQUE MARKINGS
Saturday -the 21st of NOVEMBER 2009
starting at 20:00
We are proud to present 4 SPECIAL guests to celebrate the opening of DIERBAAR BESTIARIUM # 4!*STEVEN JOHNSON LEYBA (USA) came from San Francisco to present his exhibition of luminous wonderful paintings SEX GOBLINS.The work of Leyba has been collected by important artists such as: Stephen King, H.R. Giger, William Burroughs, Poppy Z.Brite, David Cronenberg, Sherman Alexie, Clive Barker, J.D Vargas & many more.
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for the screening of
his freshly made documentary of:
'What is Art? Inside the Mind of the Artist as They Speak the Truth.'
with Joel Peter Witkin, Joe Coleman & many others
(World premiere!)Watch the trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0PVDmFJq_Q
*BONNE MATIN (NL) will do a daring , intimate & liberating SHE WOLF performance 'Crying Loba'.
* " The Twilit World of:
GEORGIO 'the DOVE' VALENTINO "
(YOU BROUGHT A KNIVE TO A GUNFIGHT - ( Detroit )
WILL GLORIFY THIS EVENING WITH HIS VELVET VOICE as a CROONER from an OSCAR WILDE FAIRYTALE..........living in Bruxelles.
Oh poor heart, I was doomed from the start.
& last but certainly not least:
*DIONYSOS ANDRONIS will come from Paris to show :
" the Pandrogeny manifesto "
dionysos andronis and aldo lee
2006, usa / france
genesis breyer p-orridge and lady jaye breyer p-orridge explore the “third mind” as in antony balch’s 1950’s film, bill & tony, using the cut-up to reject the cultural and biological anathema of fixed and fictional identity and gender. by using cosmetic surgery, body language and art they are becoming two parts of one new “third being”: the pandrogyne.Pandrogeny Manifesto. This film is basically just dueling images of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge as they recite their manifesto on the subject of the melding of the sexes. The P-Orridges had been undergoing surgical procedures to look alike so that they could be considered one being. Sadly, however, Lady Jaye passed away last year, but at least there’s this document recording what they were attempting to achieve.
as a tribute to the P-Orrigdes & to reverend Steven Leyba for whom they modelled as Sexgoblins as well.*
Prepare thyself to be hungry!
* There will be deluscious food prepared by MURUGARRIN from Spain **
!!!BE ALL VERY WELCOME TO THIS HISTORICAL EVENT!!!
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DOORS OPEN AT 19h00
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iLLUSEUM
WITTE de WITHSTRAAT 120
AMSTERDAM
http://www.stevenleyba.com/
http://www.illuseum.com/exhibitions/Leyba.htm
http://www.illuseum.com/exhibitions/LeybaII.htm
http://www.myspace.com/georgiothedovevalentino
http://www.georgiothedovevalentino.com/
(bonne matin:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0H4cscGgw
The legendary Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein made Que Viva Mexico! in 1930-1932. The project was interrupted and remained unfinished but the result is sublime. Read more about it at:
http://www.quevivamexico.com/original.html
Nine made the soundtrack to Que Viva Mexico and will play it at the Cinemaxtlan festival in Paradiso at the Dia de Los Muertes event the 1st of Novemberhttp://www.myspace.com/ninerain
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Dinsdag / Tuesday
27-10 2009 om 20:00
iLLUSEUMCatEyeFilmClub presenteert:
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson?s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this seemingly simple story becomes a moving parable of purity and transcendence.
On "Au Hasard Balthasar":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqML0dSNXGE&feature=related***
Linklaters' Fast Food Nation
DARK FANTASY OR BRUTAL REALITY ?The shocking news that NASA is going to bomb the Moon this coming friday is the reason we organized this event. We cannot hope to counterweight this criminal actions. But in spirit we can be with the Moon and remember her undamaged beauty and the Muse she has been for many in all cultures around the world.
Also we can discuss & debate the possible outcome of a deed so cruel & insane.
We were not only shocked & apalled by this information http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasas-mission-to-bomb-the-moon-2009-06 but also moonstruck by the fact that NOBODY seemed to know about this violation of the Cosmic Harmony..
iLLUSEUM will show the visionary Melies (who knew already then)' "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" Journey to the Moon ( 1902 ) and:
OMFO invites you to take part in a sonic journey through space and time presenting his new:
O M F O T E K A
Experience delightfully strange music outside of the mainstream. Listen to the records that raise many what, why and when questions. Drift along seldom-heard sounds from all over the Earth and beyond. Resonate at frequencies of lost and found radio transmissions. Dissolve in mysterious field recordings reflecting extinct and existing cultures. Get inspired by rare videos. Share a cup of delicious tea with another curious soul. Do all of that and who knows - maybe you’ll discover the essence of your mind.
apocalyps 6 : 12 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.
apocalyps 8 : 12 And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.
4 Oktober !!!! DIERENDAG !!!! ANIMAL DAY!!!! 4th of October
for english scroll down
In Dierbaar Bestiarium #3, beschouwen wij wederom de relatie tussen het mens dier & de anderen.
We openen ditmaal met werken van de iLLUSEUMinati zelf :
Alexander van der Woel, Gerard Riksen & Grace de la Luna.
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Schilderijen van Tatiana Scintu (IT) "In the realm of Djengiz Khan"
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Installatie van Theun Karelse(NL) "de Boskoi''*
The sixth century AD was the golden age of the Boskoi (grazers) on the mountainranges besides the Red Sea. These followers of Saint Anthony the hermit grazed naked in the fields and slept with the cattle like true lambs of God. Some ancient relics of these desert dwellers remain and will be shown at the Illuseum.
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Op de opening ook 2 bijzondere mensdier performers:
Aymeric Hainaux (Fr) & Kenzo Kusuda(Jap). Zij zullen op subtiele wijze een onontgonnen samenwerkingsterrein betreden, gebaseerd op wederzijdse bewondering. waar zij de grenzen van hun mensdier- zijn zullen verkennen aan de hand van Francisco D'Assisi , wiens verjaardag het is!
Ook is het tevens een klein memorial voor onze lieve vriend Nick Leslie, die ook op deze datum zijn 58ste verjaardag zou hebben gevierd.
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Natuurlijk bent u meer dan welkom als uw favoriete dier te komen
dit is echter niet verplicht!
Tot dan!?Once again we will reflect on the relationship between the human animal & the others during 'BELOVED BESTIARY #3' .
We open this part with the works by the iLLUSEUMinati themselves :
Alexander van der Woel, Gerard Riksen & Grace de la Luna.
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Paintings by Tatiana Scintu (IT) 'In the realm of Djengiz Khan'
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Installation by Theun Karelse (NL) 'the Boskoi' *
The sixth century AD was the golden age of the Boskoi (grazers) on the mountainranges besides the Red Sea. These followers of Saint Anthony the hermit grazed naked in the fields and slept with the cattle like true lambs of God. Some ancient relics of these desert dwellers remain and will be shown at the Illuseum.
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Also 2 special human animals will perform that night:
Kenzo Kusuda (JAP) & Aymeric Hainaux (FR). They will enter the virgin grounds of their collaboration with subtle steps, to discover the seeds of their mutual admiration, guided by Francisco D'Assisi, whose birthday this is.
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And we want to commemorate our beloved friend Nick Leslie who would have celebrated his 58th birthday on this day as well.
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Ofcourse you are more than welcome to come dressed up as your favorite animal, but don't feel obliged!
Hope to see you all!
* Bosci or Boskoi; the Grazing Hermits.
On one of my explorations through hagiographic literature in the Central Library of Amsterdam, I came across a text which just mentioned a piece of very very odd behavior, where early Christians literally joined the flock.
Historical back-ground:
When Christianity was legalized by Roman Emperor Constantine, the Christian Saints were no longer prosecuted. To prove their dedication to faith they found a new way to suffer, Asceticism. Soon this practice got really out off hand and people would come up with ever less comfortable ways of existence. Starving and suffering, they could go for hours, or even days without the normal signs of life. Dead to the world they lived in God. Saints became like athletes of Christ and in this passage I read the most stunning account yet, that there were even hermits who grazed like sheep. The golden age of grazers was the 6th century, when people ate grass all their lives at the coasts of the Red Sea.
In Literature:
In 'Tales of Early Ages' by Horace Smith, this passage appears on page 171, claiming the grazing hermits where known by the name of Bosci and were located it the Thebaid, the Southern most part of Egypt.
…..Of the same class but labouring under a less desperate hallucination were the Bosci, or grazing hermits, hirsute, bearded, satyr-like savages, clad in the skin of wild beasts; who having neither cells nor habitation of any sort, but living like the cattle in the fields, spent their whole time in praying and singing psalms, and when hungry, tore up with their nails the grass and wild herbs, which they devoured without cooking.
In 'An introduction to the history of the Western tradition' by Edgar Nathaniel Johnson on page 359 notes:
The Anchorage is to be met in such extravagant types as grazing hermits, those living on grass or herbs, and pillar saints such as Saint Simeon Stylites, who spent some thirty years atop of a sixty foot pillar.
W.H.C. Frend claims 178 Boskoi existed in a book entitled 'The Rise of Christianity' page 578.
There were Boskoi monks,178 those who grazed grass like animals, or burdened themselves with iron collars and heavy chains. On the fringes of orthodoxy,…
Edward Gibbon writes in his work 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', in Chapter XXXVII:
….some savage saints of both sexes have been admired, whose naked bodies were only covered by their long hair. They aspired to reduce themselves to the rude and miserable state in which the human brute is scarcely distinguishable above his kindred animals; and the numerous sect of Anachorets derived their name from their humble practice of grazing in the fields of Mesopotamia with the common herd. They often usurped the den of some wild beast whom they affected to resemble; they buried themselves in some gloomy cavern, which art or nature had scooped out of the rock; and the marble quarries of Thebais are still inscribed with the monuments of their penance.
note: Sozomen, l. vi. c. 33. The great St. Ephrem composed a panegyric on these or grazing monks, (Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. viii. p. 292.)
On page 317 in a Chapter called 'The Mental Condition of Hermits', John William Draper offers a glimpse of grazing hermits in his book titled; 'A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.'
If they were not recorded by many truthful authors, the extravagancies of some of these enthusiasts would pass belief. Men and women ran naked upon all fours, associating themselves with the beasts of the field. In the spring season, when the grass is tender, the grazing hermits of Mesopotamia went forth to the plains, sharing with the cattle their filth and their food.
Derek Krueger writes in his work entitled; 'Symeon the Holy Fool, Leontius’ Life and the Late Antique City':
…Leontius provides a chronology of Symeon’s career before his arrival in Emesa in Syria. He narrates how Symeon left his native Edessa to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, how he and his friend John first entered a monastery in the Jordan and later lived as hermits, grazing in the desert like sheep.
…..in the first half of the Life, Leontius presents Symeon and his friend John as living as grazers (βοσκο?) in the Syrian desert. An account of such grazers, unrelated to the account ? of Symeon of Emesa, can be found in the first book of Evagrius’s History. [47] As Rydén has observed, Leontius seems to combine Evagrius’s account of the boskoi with the account of Symeon of Emesa when he composes his full-length vita.[48] Leontius uses the time Symeon “spent” as a boskos to account for how he achieved the state of apatheia, so important to Leontius’s understanding—indeed his construction—of Symeon.
In 'Crimes of Christianity' by G W Foote & J M Wheeler in Chapter III:
In Mesopotamia and Palestine the Boskoi wandered on all fours, grazing like cattle. St. Mark, of Athens, lived in this way till his body was covered with hair like a wild beast's. St. Mary, of Egypt, also, during her penance, lived on grass, after the manner of Nebuchadnezzar. The great St. Ephrem, according to Tillemont, composed a panegyric on these pious cattle.
On page 41 in 'A New History of Chrisianity' Vivian Green writes:
Near Nisibis there lived a group of Boskoi or grazing monks. When meal time came they took sickles and sallied forth to cut grass and on this they made their repast as if they were cattle. Others the so-called Dendrites lived in trees.
and the sickle also appears in this picture: http://www.mondimedievali.net/medicina/images/altomed76.jpg
There is a longer section on Boskoi in 'Wandering, Begging Monks; Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity' by Daniel Caner starting on page 50.
Writing in Constantinople in the middle of the fifth century, the church historian Sozomen believed the first monks of Syria were those who had 'emulated the monks of Egypt in the practice of philosophy' by scraping a raw existence off the mountains near the Persian frontier…. Wrapped in goatskins or straw mats, boskoi monks pursued a decidedly counter-cultural anachoresis. Hunters were believed to sometimes mistake them for strange animals…. As celebrated in Syrian chant:
Those who graze on grass and roots instead of delicacies,
and in place of lofty dwellings, live in caves.
Like birds they go up to live on rocky ledges,
Where ever one of them goes,
he enjoys the herbs he picked in faith,
he leaves the rest behind and moves on from there,
because he has heard the saying;
Do not be anxious about tomorrow.
Such zealots for 'freedom from care' not only avoided artificial shelter and clothing, but rejected all ordinary labors by which human beings obtained their food. According to Sozomen this 'strict philosophy off the beaten track of mankind' had been introduced to Syria by a monk named Aones 'just as Anthony introduced it to Egypt.'Aones is otherwise unknown, but the ascetic lifestyle associated with him is familiar to what we have already seen of Bessarion and other wanderers in Egypt. In fact, testimony from the Western Mediterranean to Northern Mesopotamia shows that the lifestyle attributed to only a few Egyptian monks was one that many adopted wherever there was enough vegetation to survive. It especially came into vogue in Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine. Here monks could easily follow the footsteps of their Old Testament forebears (the patriarchs and the prophets) and imitate their nomadic patterns. Near Eastern hinterlands offered more possibilities for healthy sustenance than the Egypt desert did, nuts, asphodel roots and a juicy thistle (mannouthia) that grew on the desert fringe may even account for the reported longevity of many who took up the diet. In cultivated regions they could live by scavenging garden fruits and vegetables. They may have also picked tares off the ground or used their sickles to reap uncut corners of fields set aside for the poor to glean in accordance ancient charitable custom. Although one admirer in the fifth century expressed concern that some Boskoi were settling down and taking up agriculture, their ascetic lifestyle (as distinct from other forms of anachoresis) would long persist among Christian monks, both male and female. Late into the sixth century they could still be glimpsed roaming along the Dead Sea coast or forging in the Palestine desert naked 'like animals… nolonger human in the way they thought.'
ILLUSEUM PRESENTS:
MAMA & PAPA BEAR
MEET
KENZO KUSUDA
On the FRIDAY 25th of September 2009
at 20:00. entree 6 euro.
CAT EYE FILM CLUB presents
- THE WICKER MAN -
a film by Robin Hardy. 1973. 87 minutes.
On the Saturday 12th of September 2009 at 20:00 entree 5 euro.
THE ILLUSEUM
Witte the Withstraat 120. Amsterdam.
Sarah Labanna Bly
made a piece especially for Music Mystica Maxima, an oto festival in new york the 21 and 22 of September featuring Genesis P'Orridge and John Zorn.
On the 5th of September 2009 at 21:00 she will perform this piece at the iLLUSEUM
...'my performances are very raw and in places
i can set my circle/space i go into trance and don't remember what has
happened. It is very dependent on what the crowd needs...some times
it sounds like death and sadness generally because of blocked emotions
i am surrounded by. sometime is really ethereal and happy. generally
recently it is serious and contemplative dealing with such extreme
images of myself and milking inner nudity.'...
Sarah Labanna Bly
made a piece especially for Music Mystica Maxima, an oto festival in new york the 21 and 22 of September featuring Genesis P'Orridge and John Zorn.
On the 5th of September 2009 at 21:00 she will perform this piece at the iLLUSEUM
...'my performances are very raw and in places
i can set my circle/space i go into trance and don't remember what has
happened. It is very dependent on what the crowd needs...some times
it sounds like death and sadness generally because of blocked emotions
i am surrounded by. sometime is really ethereal and happy. generally
recently it is serious and contemplative dealing with such extreme
images of myself and milking inner nudity.'...
Labanna Bly is P. A. R. A., Pre-Atlantean-Ritual-Artifacts
representing the instinctual magic that is inherent in all beings.
Decorated as a deity of the moon, the moth goddess presents clarity in
spiritual endeavors through visual and vocal manipulations. Symbolic
occult imagery expands ones imagination as Labanna channels movements
and words that harness inner cosmic wings for all to behold...
Merzedes Sturm Lie ( born november 1991 ):
1. The Garden of Eden (during New Atlantis Festival initiated & organized by the iLLUSEUM in 2005)
'The Garden of Eden' was a workshop for children developed and led by me.
To make a film during the workshop was a part of the concept.
I combined the children's ideas and games with grown ups being interviewed on the subject The garden of Eden.
2. Factor (made for the present iLLUSEUM theme Dierbaar Bestiarium)
· It links to George Bataille, who always carried a photo of a man who was executed in a horrible way: The 'Ling Chi Execution'.
· John Zorn was inspired by this and made a song called 'Leng Che' that's part of his album Naked City, where he used this photo as the album cover.
· The Gorilla heads symbolise the 'Guerrilla girls': a feministic group of female artistsfrom the U.S. who fight against the women discrimination in the art world.
Ai Koyama:
Legacy of the Barbarian
is the physical solo improvisation by Ai Koyama.
Inspired by herself as a child of the land of the rising sun. The mother in her mind illuminates her way of unique performative communication through her physicality: instinctive , honest, sensitive and powerful. This is a little monologue for those who are interested to listen .
Concept/Music/Performance: Ai Koyama
Costume: Javier Murugarren
Born in Japan, Ai started to learn classical ballet when she was 5 years old with Tatuo Kasuya in Mito city. At the department of Performing Arts in Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, she studied contemporary dance and started to create her own pieces. She came to Amsterdam in 2003 to study dance choreography at School for New dance development. She worked with cie Heddy Maalem in 2006, and is working with cie Linga since 2007 as a dancer. Her choreographies are works of continuous research. Ai is based in Amsterdam.
Dear people,
We have the honour to invite you all cordially
to attend the much awaited concert by Papa & Mama Baer with the alarming title:" TO END ALL LIFE " *
1st of August 2009 at the iLLUSEUM 20:30
on their way to do a concert invited by Mary Baermeister in her atelier, the most cherished place of all Fluxus people, Kommisar Hjuler +Frau will do a one-of-a-kind concert at the iLLUSEUM.
Mary Baermeister is the first wife of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a good friend of Niki de St. Phalle and Robert Rauschenberg.
Besides being an avant-garde painter, German artist Mama Baer gives music performances together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler as well (recently they collaborated with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore !).
He proofs that being a headofficer of police is not mutually exclusive with being a great artistic performer. Together Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler frequently perform with their 'dada-esque sound poetry'.
Saturday the 1st of August this unique duo will amaze Amsterdam with a concert in the iLLUSEUM, starting at 20:30, entrance: 6 euros.Naast haar beeldend werk is de Duitse avant-garde kunstenares Mama Baer (o.a. bekend van samenwerking met 'Sonic Youth') ook bekend als muzikante. Samen met haar man Kommissar Hjuler brengt zij geregeld hun 'dadaeske geluidspoezie' ten gehore. (hun meest recente release is met 'Sonic Youth' Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore '!)
Kommissar Hjuler bewijst dat een functie als hoofdkommissaris van de politie best gepaard kan gaan met een leven als artistiek performer.
Zaterdag 1 augustus zullen de klanken van dit bijzondere duo de sfeer van het iLLUSEUM verrijken tijdens een eenmalig concert, aanvang 20:30, entree: 6 euro. Adres: Witte de withstraat 120, Amsterdam. meer informatie: www.illuseum.com en www.asylum-lunaticum.de*The concert's title is referring to the series of paintings that is currently on display at the iLLUSEUM. The series are made by Mama Baer and are inspired by an apocalyptic vision of humankind on the verge of extinction by a virus of some sort. Related to a poisonous plant that MamaBaer read about in an article of a science magazine from the sixties in the period she was asked by the iLLUSEUM to participate in the Dierbaar Bestiarium exhibition.
P.S: The exhibition is prolonged for one month !
About MamaBaer:
http://www.illuseum.com/exhibitions/Mammabaer.htmP r i m i t i v e E q u a t i o n s
Saturday the 18th of July
evening starts at 21:00at MIDNIGHT:
P o r t a b l e P a l a c e
( Dmitry Gelfand en Evelina Domnitch)
in collaboration withO M F O
the spectacular performance
' O p e n i n g C o c c y x '
chemiluminescent performance
"Bursts of light are emitted as a result of a chemical reaction
which occurs as drops of chemiluminescent solution fall into a pool
of sodium hypochlorite, creating luminescent rain.
After birth, the nine sacral and tailbones are fused into two,
enabling the trunk of the body to stand upright. Unless the
sacral and tailbones are reopened, it is not possible for
the neck muscles, cervical spine and throat to operate freely.
It is not possible to reach an illuminated state until this
process is completed."
Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch both artists & scientists combine in their intrigueing installations physics, chemistry, computer science & philosophy to create unique experiences for the senses of the spectator.
De kunstenaars met wetenschappelijke achtergrond Dmitry en Evelina staan bekend om hun kunstinstallaties die scheikunde, natuurkunde, computer science en filosofische ideeen met elkaar verenigen en een bijzondere zintuigelijke ervaring zijn voor de toeschouwer.
OMFO
( Our Man From Odessa ) gets most of his inspiration from his travels thru the Mid-East. He will play the Morin Khur in combination with his masterful throat singing to accompany the performance.OMFO ( Our Man From Odessa ) - Gherman Popov haalt veel van zijn muzikale inspiratie uit reizen door Azie. Hij zal deze performance begeleiden met keelzang en het Mongoolse instrument 'morin khur' ( horse cello ). De samenwerking van OMFO met Portable Palace, de Orphologist + special guests staat garant voor een speciale avond in het iLLUSEUM!
!Don't miss this special event of these special artists from the former USSR!
De Lunar Bar zal exotische drankjes verzorgen, Neo Humain: erotische hapjes.
Dress code: 'Arctic White'Open vanaf 21:00, entree: 5 euro,
locatie: het iLLUSEUM, Witte de Withstraat 120, Amsterdam.
Meer informatie: www.illuseum.com www.portablepalace.com en www.omfo.net
21th of June Friday open: 20:00 screening: 21:00
Those of you who hated the slow pace of "What the bleep" and "The Secret", but liked the idea of a movie that require you to think, might be interested to know that Headspace Studios, located in Cape Town, South Africa, is about to unleash "Cognition Factor".
Featuring more than 20 of the most important minds of our age, the movie is about a cyberpunk's search for enlightenment, during which the viewer is taken through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the " Big Five" questions relating to the human experience.
The movie is just a few minutes over an hour long, and thus qualifies as a 'full-length' feature for Cannes. and will be ready for shipping to France in approx one week. We will be represented at Cannes by Chris Roland of Zen-HQ Productions.
I think the cast of the movie is where the heart of everything is, so I'll stop here and credit those whose opinions feature. You can get more info, and teasers, on
http://www.myspace.com/cognitionfactor
http://www.youtube.com/user/Memetico
The interviewees are:
Terence Mckenna (philosopher/explorer)
Prof. Dennis Mckenna (Ethnobotanist)
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Biologist - morphic resonance)
Prof. Ralph Abraham (Chaos Theorist/Mathematician)
Dr. Ralph Metzner (Psychology/psychotherapy)
Dr. Stan Krippner (Philosophy/parapsychology)
Prof. David Peat (Phycisist)
Alex Grey (Artist)
John Shirley (Author/Philosopher)
Roberto Venosa (Artist)
Martina Hofmann (Artist)
David Jay Brown (Author/rearcher)
Barry Lategan (Photographer)
Prof. Tony Fairall (Astronomer)
Prof. Rebecca Ackerman (Bio-archaeologist/anthropologist)
Prof. Karin Essler (Ecologist)
Dr. Myke Scott (Botanist)
Charmaine Joseph Gwaza (Sangoma)
Dr. Libby Hubbard (Dr. Future education)
Prof. Guy Midgely (Ecologist)
Chris Roland (Film Maker)
Armando (Ayahuascero)
Brummbaer (3D Artist)
Dr. Barak Morgan (Neuroscience)
Nuff said?
Schwann Cybershaman
(Producer: Cognition Factor)
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Cognition Factor - The South African Secret?
Press Release and invite: You're invited to the premier of
'C o g n i t i o n .F a c t o r '
on the Sunday 21st of June at any of the international locations listed below.
Simultaneous global premiers are taking place in New York, London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Byron Bay, Sonoma CA and Johannesburg. It's a a global happening!
Cognition Factor is an independent South African production with an edgy take on documentary film making. It's an experiment in conscious cinema somewhere beyond Bleep and Secret, a movie about the evolution of consciousness and the war between science and spirituality. It stars the internationally acclaimed Terence Mckenna, plus a score of interesting, smart people.
G r e a t S u m m e r S o l s t i c e W e e k e n d 2 0 0 9 :
When Civil - Lie - sation Gave Birth to the Awakening of the True & Noble Creative Human Spirit :
"Dierbaar Bestiarium #1 ( prologue )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ketozHmN7LY
Friday 19th of June 19:00
Opening "Dierbaar Bestiarium #1 ( prologue )
Works by the iLLUSEUMinati: Grace de la Luna, Sir Dark Green & Alexander van der Woel
starring : Kenzo Kusuda !!!:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8y6kBUssI)
entrance free
donation welcome
Sunday 21st of June 21:00
( door open 20:00 ) Simultaneous Global Screening of:
"Cognition Factor"
- Mike Kawitzky (2009)
entrance 6 euro
(http://www.illuseum.com/agenda/agenda-current.htm)
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See Cognition Factor at participating Venues for the global premier on Sunday 21st June
New York: The Wild Project Theatre - 7PM - 195 East 3rd Street
London: Princess Anne Theatre: BAFTA-[British
Academy of Film and Television Arts] - 6.30PM - 195 Piccadilly
California: Sonoma: The Sebastiani - 3.30PM - 476 First St E
Toronto: The Cineforum - 7.00PM - 463 Bathurst
Amsterdam: The iLLUSEUM - 8.30 for 9.00PM - Witte de Withstraat 120
Cape Town: The Labia Cinema - 6.15 for 6.30PM - 68 Orange Street, Gardens
Byron Bay NSW: Starseed - 7.00 for 8.00PM
For those who liked 'Bleep' and 'Secret', but need a quicker pace. Cognition Factor is an experiment in conscious cinema during which the viewer is guided through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the questions relating to the human experience.
Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey and top thinkers of our times into the plot.
The interviewees speak from within virtural worlds, (by Jack Gallagher), and are backed by original compositions from top international musicians and composers, including Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7), brought together by South African ambient composer performer and originator, Mike Martin - Indidginus.
Facing our deepest fears with hope and understanding, Cognition Factor seeks a new way of presenting word, picture, music and opinion to an increasingly informed audience who are bored with media prescription.
Cognition Factor has been independently produced by Headspace Studios. Filmed in HD with a 5.1 surround soundtrack, it will also be available in the new Blu-Ray format. Trailer below.
The world's first smart movie? You bet!
The 'contactees' filmed and appearing in
the movie:
Terence Mckenna (Etnobotanist/philosopher/explorer)
Prof. Dennis Mckenna (Ethnobotanist)
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Biologist - morphic resonance)
Prof. Ralph Abraham (Chaos Theorist/Mathematician)
Dr. Ralph Metzner (Psychology/psychotherapy)
Dr. Stan Krippner (Philosophy/parapsychology)
Prof. David Peat (Phycisist)
Alex Grey (Artist)
John Shirley (Author/Philosopher)
David Jay Brown (Author/rearcher)
Barry Lategan (Photographer)
Prof. Tony Fairall (Astronomer)
Prof. Rebecca Ackerman (Bio-archaeologist/anthropologist)
Dr. Myke Scott (Botanist)
Charmaine Joseph Gwaza (Sangoma)
Dr. Libby Hubbard (Dr. Future education)
Prof. Guy Midgely (Ecologist)
Chris Roland (Film Maker)
Brummbaer (3D Artist)
Dr. Barak Morgan (Neuroscience)
www.illuseum.com
Summer Solstice iLLUSEUM: Opening Dierbaar Bestiarium#1 (prologue) 19-6'09 & Simultaneous Global "Cognition Factor" screening 21-6'09
Sunday the 17th of may 2009 20:30
AYMERIC HAINAUX
Walking is the cement of all my work; To walk in an intense and prolonged manner from one point to another allows one.
What purpose do our knees serve? Our ears? Our elbows?... We have been given a body and a space to use it in.
This works is involving life, is involving walk.
A kind of hymn to life.
A human beatbox from France in Amsterdam.
A voice 'n' noise gig.
"My vocal work consists of a sonorous multitude of tunes, vocal rhythms, songs, whistlings...
All these things which come through me during long walking journeys or during physical and manual work.
I try, with as little effects as possible (my body, my voice, little bells and a harmonica), to express all of this in a lively and musical way.A kind of "hymn to life"; "Why do we have arms, elbows, knees, vocal chords...?""
"I have always worked around travelling in a non-motorised way (mainly walking) across the natural environment Walking is the cement of all my work; graphic, oral (vocal percussion) and narrative (comics). We live in an age where everything is made to distance man from nature. To walk in an intense and prolonged manner from one point to another allows one, like all healthy and intelligent manual work, to become aware of life and to find our human roots. To be in touch with the energy which beats within. What purpose do our knees serve? Our ears? Our elbows?... We have been given a body and a space to use it in. In us all, a creative fibre. Walking is an act of life towards the development of this fibre. This works is involving life, is involving walk.We are alive!
With Christine Quoiraud, dancer/walker/choregrapher, I took part in a three-week residential workshop on the theme of walking and dancing in the Moroccan desert, near Meski. This time devoted to the body made a huge emotional impact on my life; I've realised, among other things, that the vocal percussion that I have practised for 13 years now, was the rhythm of my life and my steps
A kind of hymn to life".
ET TOI, ETRE ETERNEL, AUTEUR DE LA VIE, TU ES LA VERITE
www.myspace.com/aymerichainaux
comicwork by Aymeric Hainaux : www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/eurocomics/1715/
STEVEN JOHNSON LEYBA
For some work and words by Steven Leyba:
About " Unspeakable ":
Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba is the kind of man who will paint all over the American flag then remind you that "flag etiquette" has been royally pissed on by most major designers without anyone raising an eyebrow. He will have a swastika cut into his back while reminding you that this is an ancient symbol... then he'll wonder aloud how many people were killed in the name of the sanctified Holy Cross. Reverend Leyba is a legally ordained Priest in the Church of Satan. He is known in the underground art world as the "Father of Sexpressionism". The man views every kind of bodily excretion as a viable medium with which to paint. He is deeply in touch with his Native American ancestry. These juxtapositions may seem like a lot to ponder, but they represent just a scratch on the surface. For nearly two years, Reverend Leyba permitted the filmmaker's cameras to observe his life, his art, and his infamous personal rituals. Some of this extraordinarily unique footage charts a terrain of human behavior that has rarely, if ever, been explored within the documentary form. The Reverend's prolific and varied artistic output reflects his unyielding political and religious opinions. "UNSPEAKABLE" captures the unusual behavior of this Satanic Priest and takes a firsthand look at the issues that propel his work. The film hops from one inimitable character to the next as they grapple with topics ranging from the denial of the "American Holocaust", to the discovery of new ways to make an explosively sexual/ political statement with a whiskey bottle. Such luminaries as Church of Satan High Priestess Blanche Barton, photographeranthropologist Charles Gatewood, and President of the Tom of Finland Foundation, Durk Dehner, guide us through a journey of Sex and Satan...a sneak peek of Radical Art and Raging Performances. The resulting portrait is of an artist with a perversely brilliant vision. He is both humor and fury. He is grotesque, yet possesses the UNSPEAKABLE beauty of a man free enough to confront and embrace his own humanity.
Friday the 10th of may 2009 21:00
Another wonderful night at the iLLUSEUM.
*** Be welcome **
OPEN: 21:00
ENTRANCE: 6 EURO
watch:http://www.myspace.com/etneibmaletoh
see an other incredible act he did in front of the white house:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=69287
LAST MINUTE: EXTRA SURPRISE ACT:
!!!THE GREAT MAGICIAN RAMANA PERFORMS AFTER THE CONCERT !!! "ALIVE AFTER DEATH" !!!! MEET THE UNSURPASSED MAGICIAN AND SEE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS FROM BEYOND YOUR PERCEPTION !!!!!!
PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS
Saturday April 18, opening at 21:00. Illuseum, Witte de Withstraat 120, Amsterdam
Cambodia on my mind
Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, genocide, holidays... what more do we know about Cambodia?
Primitive Equations reveal the hidden treasures of Cambodia.
The program includes:
A film about traditional Cambodian opera and dance.
Pre-revolutionary Cambodian pop and music of ethnic minorities presented by OMFO (G. Popov)
In the later hours shamanistic disco sounds with Orphologist (M.Shaposhnikov)
and more…….
Exotic snacks from South-East Asia
The Lunar Bar for the thirsty ones.
Entrance tax 6 Euro.
Links
www.illuseum.com
www.omfo.net
Primitive Equations
They open treasure boxes of tribal sounds and field recordings.
They reveal x-files and lift you up in space.
They recite long forgotten poetry and epic tales.
They whisper magic formulas in ancient languages and invent words.
They burn Siberian incense to chase away evil spirits.
They use traditional Siberian gadgets, computers, image and sound.
Sneak into the world of "primitive" beliefs and rituals where myths rule
the world and everything...everything!?...¡everything! is possible.
X+Y=Z
YOUR CHANCE
TO GET YOUR NEW AFFORDABLE PERFECT OUTFIT
!!! DIRECTLY FROM YOUR FAVOURITE DESIGNER!!!
!!!BRING YOUR MONEY & RUN!!!!
WATCH MURUGALAS' FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE ILLUSEUM,DECEMBER 2008 - UNEXPECTED DRESSES FOR UNDEFINED CEREMONIES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IxHc9IwdM
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW 7" SINGLE "CUT IT!" & "HAT" PLUS A NEW TRACK "SWEETE THAMES" AS YET UNRELEASED AT
http://www.not-applicable.org/blurt/
Poppenspeler verandert in saxofonist .
Milton paart zijn verknipte en gepassioneerde gedachtepatronen met krijsende solovluchten en veeltongige stem terwijl zijn band een ingewikkeld traliewerk van achtergrondritmes bij elkaar timmert om hem op te laten rondgolven. Blurt's hoekige gepatineerde white - funk verwerpt iedere poging tot duiding, integraal uitgelicht door Ted Milton eigenaardige expressionistische saxofoon excursies.
Drums gitaar en saxofoon, dat is alles. Het resultaat: een geinspireerde of imbeciele uitstoot van de meest valse jazz-punk-funk-rock modder die ooit je oorkanaal bevuilde. Met bedwelmende woede laat het heetrode sporen achter. Huilend en krassend; snijdend met een gekartelde en scherpe snede.
Dissonant schurend en verwarrend, Blurt zorgt voor ongemakkelijk en belonend luisteren.
*****
Sporting a lineup of alto sax, bass and drums, a sound and a attitude which had more in common with the spirit of New York’s ‘no wave’ explosion of the late-70s and early-80s, Blurt’s edgy, off-kilter white funk still defies attempts at tidy classification. Lit up throughout by the singular Ted Milton’s expressionistic sax excursions...
...Dissonant, abrasive and unsettling, Blurt makes for uneasy but rewarding listening...an uncompromisingly bohemian combo, who are still carving out their own little corner of the cosmos.
To make up for the concert that was cancelled in september 2008 BLURT is visiting the iLLUSEUM for their Last last LAST Tour. No fires in the tunnel this time!
Seats are limited so if you want to be certain of a place please reserve and pay in advance with paypall ( you can make use of the donate button on homepage www.illuseum.com )
Om het afgelastte concert van september 2008 goed te maken vereerd BLURT het iLLUSEUM met hun Last last LAST Tour Plaatsen zijn beperkt dus als u zeker wilt zijn van een plaats reserveer dan en betaal met paypall ( u kunt gebruik maken van de 'donate' knop op homepage www.illuseum.com )
LastLAST Tour on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwS7HvYWqS8
Let there be BLURT:
http://www.tedmilton.com/
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LONELINESS IS FULL OF LIFE
Frans Post Uiterweer
Op een 'Bullet' van Royal Enfield, een engelse motorfiets uit 1933 die nog gewoon verkrijgbaar is, trok Frans Post Uiterweer over de hoogste passen van de Himalaya. Hij maakte daar een prachtige foto- en reis verslag in noord-west India, Ladakh's Indus vallei.
Op 26 maart verschijnt er een artikel in het glossy heren LifeStyleMagazine BIG BLACK BOOK met deze prachtige foto- en reisreportage.
14 maart begint de fotoexpositie ' Loneliness is full of Life ' in het iLLUSEUM , waarop wij u allen hopen te verwelkomen , om tijdens het nuttigen van een drankje weg te kunnen dromen bij dit ooggetuige verslag van een wonderbaarlijk mooie wereld, die vlak bij de hemel is gelegen.
En......de mogelijkheid bestaat deze beelden aan te schaffen om zo verzekerd te zijn van een eeuwig uitzicht in eigen huis of bedrijf!
Komt allen....rond zonsondergang!
!TOEGANG VRIJ!
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Riding a 'Bullet', a motorbike from 1933, produced untill now by Royal Enfield, the freelance photographer Frans Post Uiterweer crossed the Himalaya over the highest passes. He made an exquisite photoreportage of this journey in North-west India, Ladakh, Indus valley.
This resulted in the article which will be released on the 26th of March by the glossy LifeStyle Magazine, the Big Black Book for gentlemen. On the 14th of March we hope to welcome you on the opening of the exhibition ' Loneliness is full of Life ' at the iLLUSEUM where we can enjoy a drink, sharing this eyewitness report of a marvelous world close to heaven. There is the possibility to purchase these images to be assured of this eternal view in your own living or working - space! Welcome.....at sundawn!
!FREE ENTRANCE!
Serie buitenland documentair augustus 2008 door fotograaf Frans Post Uiterweer
Noord-west India Ladack Indus vallei
Enorme bergketens, eeuwig besneeuwde pieken, vruchtbare valleien.
Grootse kloosters omgeven door gebedsvlaggen met heilige en heilzame teksten die door de wind verspreid worden over de hele wereld brengen verlichting.
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Lieve Mensen / Dear People !
Wilt u alstublieft reserveren voor deze avond zodat er genoeg momo's zullen zijn voor iedereen ?
Please reserve for this evening so we can provide enough momo's for everybody ?we are proud to present this beautiful evening & unique documentaryCOMING HOME / de crematie van Khandro Lhamo ( 2004 )
regisseuse Babeth van Loo zal bij de screening aanwezig zijn en deze inleiden.
* gratis momo's ( tibetaanse hapjes )ter ere van het Nieuwe Jaar*+Special Sparkling Music Guests :LOS POETTES(Roberta Petzoldt & Alexandra Duvekot)
Tevens pre-view van het werk van de fotograaf Frans Post Uiterweer te zien. De foto's die worden getoond zijn het resultaat van zijn reis in Ladakh. De intense licht en lucht foto's van het landschap ademen een schoonheid en melancholie die thematisch aansluit bij deze boedhistische viering.Hopende u weer te zien in het iLLUSEUM ..........De iLLUSEUMinati
Jacob Plooij - violin Paul Stouthamer - cello - http://www.myspace.com/paulstouthamer
Vilbjørg - voice, puredata - http://www.antidelusionmechanism.org
there will be vegan snacks
www.illuseum.com