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<p>Now available for direct ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Entry Points. Resonating Punk, Performance, and Art</b><br>
Stevphen Shukaitis, Penny Rimbaud, Dharma, and Awk Wah<br>
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Art-media project exploring resonances between punk and
performance in the UK and Southeast Asia<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=949">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=949</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now
for the special price of £10.<br>
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Released by Minor Compositions & Ujikaji Records, 2019<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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52 pages, Risograph printed artist book with CD<br>
Edition of 200<br>
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Ujikaji is an independent music label and organizer of DIY music
events. Ujikaji means “experiment” in Malay, and the label’s
interests lie in the curation of experimental music, with a
special focus on Southeast Asian artists and sounds.<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
& provocations drawing from autonomous politics,
avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.
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