This summer, one man, a disparate community unknown to
itself, and a variant cast of trans-galactic (m)animistic interlopers, will set
forth into an timeless voyage of discovery...
(( ( ( (
( K A R A
O K E
C O D E X
) ) ) ) ))
KARAOKE CODEX invites adventurous
audience by-standers to participate in a performative de-ciphering of arcane
algorithms.
The traditional karaoke-book, littered
with the sonic detritus of a hegemonic sentimentality (chimerized in mud as an inverted Cock-Wolf,
spewing mutant opera-tics out of externalized and flatulant organs), is mutated
from its general status as an accessible repository of song-options into an
archive of heretofore undreamt high-action theatrics. From hybridized
populisms to occultic conjurations, the Karaoke Codex is designed to be
immediately and accessibly performable.
In
an attempt to develop the work as an open collaboration, Karaoke Codex is also
extended as an invitation - to potential participants, conspirators, initiates,
and troglodytes - to submit material to be transmogrified into a performative cypher. Developed into performance operations, the intention is to orchestrate
performances based on submitted, selected research material (such as
instructions for summoning Gods, libretto for Space Operas, aerobics instructions for somnambulists, etc) that might be mediated via the
paced-and-plotted textual instruction of the karaoke video. Collaborators will
be cited in participation with the project, and will receive a commemorative
multiple, signed photograph, t-shirt, or ritual implement in recompense.
Future venues to include remote fields throughout the UK, abandoned pubs and train tunnels throughout London, and at the Camden Arts Centre, London.
Note: *All performers will be assisted by a Wizard.*
To submit material, please email mr.joeyryken@gmail.com
