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9 FESTIVALS 10 IN MEMORIAMTECH 3 yet tofi imitation iswhatyou doearlyoninlifewhenyouhave unsuccessfully, ofcourse—toimitateboth, because in artthatKathy Ackerassumed inliterature.Itried— my sourcelessanger. Rauschenbergassumedtherole 1960s thatImostlikelyrelatedtothrough punkrock, jarring andanti-aestheticalabouthis workfromthe some mightcallananti-sensibility.) Therewassomething a strongimpactonmydevelopingsensibility (which collections, Rauschenberg’scombinepaintingshad college. Wanderingthroughthatcity’sgreatpermanent seriously until1997, whenImoved toNewYork for own judgment.Iwasn’tabletostartlookingatart personal thatitmakesdiff My ownrelationshiptoRauschenberg’sworkisso decide. work, from1970upto2008,allowthepublic will throwtogetheradefi judgment onit,butperhapssomeenterprisinginstitution I haven’tseenenoughofthelaterworktopronounce interesting ashegotolder. Hekeptmakingit,though. an artist–hisworkeitherstayedthesameorgrewless the so-calledartworld.Heneverreallyevolvedmuchas the coastofFloridainrelativeisolationfromrest for muchofthelatterhalfhislifeonanislandoff early, thenwentback“out”assoonhecould,living for thevastdurationofone’slife.Rauschenberggot“in” One typicallybecomestheestablishmentbyresistingit could makesenseofatthetime.For many, thatstrugglecontinues. becoming infamous—ifnotopenlydespisedbythecriticalestablishment—with hisfirst exhibitedworks,whichnoone 1960s. Bycircumstance,hewasalsothefirst artisttointroducetheenfantterriblenotionintoAmericanartworld, was theartistwhoseworkformedabridgefromAbstractExpressionismof1940sand1950stoPop Artofthe lovers, JasperJohnsandCyTwombly, heisfrequentlyseenasatransitionalfigure, andperhapsmorethantheothers,he It’s hardnottofallintothetrapofthinkingaboutRobertRauschenbergfromahistoricalperspective.Liketwohis RAUSCHENBERG nd your ownway. 1925 2008 nitive exhibitionofthelater icult formetotrustmy

assess thetruevalue ofhiswork. came. WithRauschenberg, itisperhapsstilltooearlyto and graduatedback intotheobscurityfromwhencehe out asanaïveoutsiderfromprovincial nowheresville, in itscomeuppance,severevision of things.Hestarted viewed bytheworldasacreationof world.Theworld well haveerasedhimself, becausehewantedhisarttobe about it.Justasheonceerasedade Kooning, hemight as Joseph Beuys,butwithamarkedlydiff ambassador ofopenness—theAmericanequivalentto barrier separatingartfromlife,andthusbecamean famously quippedthathewantedtoerasetheartifi Rauschenberg’s artisitsbrutallackofdefi Still, whatremainsthemostdisruptivefeatureof design—by goingbacktofoundationaldesignprinciples. anti-design. Inactuality, Ithinktheyrepresenttotal dizzy andnauseous.Alotofhispaintingsseemlike I fi motion andrhythminalotofhislargerpaintingsthat of failedexperimentsoutthere,butthere’saquality some ofitdoescohereonavisuallevel.Therearelot denunciation ofhiswork(suchasJedPerl’s), because good. 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INTERVIEW relationship with these people? Do you watching their TV, using their laptop and mobile Addictive TV struggle to combine the business and the Your work at Audiovisual Adidas tour of phone that’s all been made in China! Political Text by Alex Lawson creative? China sounds excellent, what do you make activism isn’t primarily what we’re about and G: Well both sides have their own positive and of the fi asco worldwide that has followed oppression of anyone anywhere is terrible of negative points and in many ways everything—if the Olympic Torch? course, but to be honest many governments you’re earning a living—is a business, whether T: Yes, it’s great being part of the Olympic around the world do questionable things, our It is not often that pioneers of a genre remain its champion for so long, but British duo art or entertainment. Commissioned work experience, but we worked for Adidas direct, as own British government included! Do you hear Addictive TV have paved the way for visual DJs (VJs!) worldwide. Specializing in audio-visual for someone can actually be much more of a oppose to anyone directly from the Olympics. of artists saying that because of the Iraq war they challenge as you have constraints and parameters And this was well before all the political issues won’t play in the UK or the USA? I think people remixes of fi lms; their mind-bending mash-ups and work with the likes of Samuel L Jackson to work with but that can also be a good thing. around the torch became heightened. I think the need to be careful of double standards. have garnered praise and shaken dance-fl oors in equal measure. Arriving in the Czech capital The real upside of creating your own work though whole torch thing has been a farce. Sport and is not having a short deadline, which so often politics shouldn’t mix, but unfortunately they to blow the socks off the Akropolismultimediale festival, Think Again caught up with them commissions have! do—there’s no getting away from that. to see how they were preparing for the trip. T: Some commercial jobs can be diff icult in what G: Yes, I agree. But if your implication is that we’re actually being asked to do, like creating Western artists should boycott working in China music from sounds that aren’t very musical, then I don’t really agree. I think we need cultural Are you looking forward to playing in music-video remixes, with some old favorites Your mash-up on the but like Graham says, you have to see that as a engagement and artists should not be afraid Prague? Have you played here before? and some new material that we’ve produced fi lm was excellent, but how did you feel to challenge and not a problem. A good example to do work that is going to be seen in China, TOLLY: No, we’ve never played in Prague recently—particularly a bootleg drum ‘n’ bass see the movie itself so universally attacked was “Rapture Riders—Blondie Vs. The Doors” and I don’t think artists should shy away from before—so yes, we’re very much looking forward remix of Led Zeppelin! by the critics? that we created for EMI, a great job to do but a China. An artist may not agree with a country’s to it. In Eastern Europe, we’ve played in Hungary, G: It didn’t annoy us at all—we were nothing to bit of a diff icult one, as we were told there wasn’t government or their policies, but does that Romania, and in Poland a number of times—but Your work seems to take you worldwide. do with the actual fi lm. We simply created some this will be our fi rst trip to the Czech Republic! How does playing in Europe compare to, television adverts for the American promotional GRAHAM: Actually, long before the “Velvet say, the Far East? campaign. I don’t think it was ever a fi lm that was Revolution” (Sametová Revoluce) I went to T: In a funny way, the more you travel the more meant to win awards and so it was expected that Prague as a small boy, and other parts of what you realize everywhere—in many ways—is very serious fi lm critics wouldn’t love it—that was was then Czechoslovakia. I remember going to much the same. It’s people, cars, restaurants, part of the whole fi lm and what it was about— Wenceslas Square and also going to other towns people, shops, streets, highways, and more even the name “Snakes on a Plane!”—you can’t like Brno and České Budějovice. I’ve really strong people! What makes things diff erent in Europe take it too seriously! It was supposed to be a memories too, of castles and being in the Tatra from, say, the Far East is that people are trashy B-movie that in reality turned out better Mountains! My parents had a Czech friend who a little bit more used to partying and dancing than many fi lms that are marketed as worked on the Czech railways—and he still does in large numbers here in Europe! But that’s a “amazing” and “must-see” fi lms. to this day! Looking back, it was quite rare as generalization. There are some huge clubs in T: The hype around Snakes on a Plane was a foreigner to visit under communism. Japan—but not many. The Japanese and the simply mad, and it was great to be involved with Chinese also both have a very strong image- that. At one point we were the only people in the The festival has been described as an based tradition and visual culture. whole UK who’d actually seen the fi lm and we “interconnection and fusion of new media were getting calls from the press asking us what and ,” pretty perfect for Could you describe the processes you go all the fuss was about! you right? through to create each AV mix? G: Yes, it sounds just right! Even though for us, G: Well, both the audio and the video are done I saw in an interview in which you said AV doing what we do we think is very normal, it can completely simultaneously, with me and Tolly is not taken seriously enough as an art sometimes feel pretty weird as, say, we’ll be the sitting side by side swapping fi les backwards form, can you expand on this? oddity at a straight music festival, then if we and forwards and simply creating a piece. We G: I guess we still think that’s probably play at a fi lm festival or digital arts event, people start by looking for audiovisual samples in the true—but it’s all about context and how you think we’re DJs and a music act instead of digital footage—I should point out that they have to think about what is art. We prefer to think less in artists! People love to label artists don’t they? work both aurally and visually, and then we begin terms of defi nitions of what we do—journalists Trouble is, when you are working in a fairly new the process of constructing a basic tune that like to have reference points and labels—but for fi eld that’s not easy to even describe, it becomes works musically from those, always making sure us what we do is intended both as entertainment hard to label acts like us! the pictures also do what we need in terms of and art. And those are two things which are not narrative or composition. mutually exclusive. I think there are times when What can we expect from the Addictive TV T: Yep, then it’s just a long old struggle, no the high-art looks down its nose at the video live show? diff erent to music composition, trying stuff remixing and sampling side of AV for being too T: We’ll be playing a full on audiovisual out, seeing what works, but with the added ‘obvious’ in some way, which basically translates Addictive TV play the Akropolismultimediale Festival on June 6th Addictive TV play the Akropolismultimediale Festival Akropolis 4–7/6, Palác www.palacakropolis.cz/akropolismultimediale set, a mixture of our movie and complication of thinking in two mediums at once! as not weird enough. 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29 VIDEO Q&A PARTS&LABOR

Parts&Labor is a noise-rock outfi t that emerged from the sprawling Brooklyn music scene that has been gaining momentum the last couple years. The upcoming Bohemian Like You gig will be their second visit to Prague, so we sent the band a few questions–the same ones they posted on their own Myspace blog as part of a call for recordings of found sounds to be submitted by their fans to be

used in P&L’s upcoming . (L to R: Sarah Lipstate, BJ Warshaw, Joe Wong, Dan Friel)

What’s your favorite or least favorite sound? Quart festival. I’m psyched. I have been to Oklahoma City, BJ: My favorite sound is the distant, ambient roar of cars on and it was kind of a bummer... a highway. And crickets. My least favorite sound is a broom J: Same. sweeping sand against concrete. S: I’m going to respond to the most literal and immediate Dan: My parents have a cat that is 21 years old. Every day he interpretation of this question because I’m on an airplane fi nds a place alone and sings to himself. His name is Fluff y. right now fl ying from my hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana, Joe: Tinnitus. back to New York. I’m actually writing my responses to these Sarah: Favorite sounds: Sidewalk symphonies. Construction questions on a Continental Airlines napkin with a pen I sites that sound like guitar armies. Silence. borrowed from the woman sitting next to me.

What are you afraid of? When was the last time you said “wow” and why? BJ: Large bodies of water. BJ: I made some really kickass sweet potato home fries for D: Crowds. breakfast last weekend; I’d never made them before and they J: No, Ghosts. came out really tasty. S: Giant balloons. I am against them. D: I just heard Group Doueh last weekend, and I’m fairly sure I said wow. Check it out: www.sublimefrequencies.com What do your parents sound like? J: Not the mama. BJ: Unconditionally, mercilessly supportive. S: Two days ago. I woke up Saturday morning at my parent’s D: Nice people in fl annel shirts. house in Lafayette and learned that a train had derailed J: Home. overnight and the city was ordering 3,500 residents to S: Beep bop boop slorch blerg. They sound awesome! evacuate the area due to a looming cloud of hydrochloric acid released from the freight cars. Airborne toxic event! Wow! Where are you going, or where have you been? BJ: I’m going to sleep; I have been in a basement recording Parts&Labor my voice for far too many hours. July 6, Club 007 Strahov D: I’m going to for the fi rst time this July for the www.myspace.com/bohemianlikeyounight

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39 FLASH 40 FLASH Rogers, Peet, MartinGredner DUPLEX: Abu, ANS,DeusexMachina, ESP, Joyrex CROSS CLUB: 27. 6.FRIDAY/PÁTEK Face, Arco ZERO: Trnqua, Clubvibe U BUKANÝRA: Wrec, Ghonzales,LuluRulez,Nitropank ROXY: DJs BigJ,Rico,12Play, MarkDevlin RADOST FX: Kroužil, JakubV, Cerweny MISCHMASCH: The Whip MEET FACTORY: Bon Finix MECCA: D-Tone M1 LOUNGE: Irie Memba Kittens, DJsTweet, BabylonRocker, Live Houpacíkoně,Duchessandthe CHATEAU ROUGE: DUPLEX: Amadeus, Riot,MCD.O.C. CROSS CLUB: 21. 6.SATURDAY/SOBOTA ZERO: Crawall XT3: David DorůžkaTrio U MALÉHOGLENA: Rai, Tazz ROXY: VJ Martin Deluxx, AndréMusique,Vectif, Tvyks, RADOST FX: Brian, Neo,Madman,Eagle MISCHMASCH: Lafayette MECCA: J, 12Play M1 LOUNGE: Matthew Herbert LUCERNA MUSICBAR: feat. Pee Bee3 BDay Special:DJsDanCooley, Madman CHATEAU ROUGE: Rogers, Peet Charlie, DavidMonoszon,Tommy DUPLEX: Kru, Jan2,KapSak CROSS CLUB: 20. 6.FRIDAY/PÁTEK Colp, Diserie,Psychotik Despair, 2Faces ofHouseMusic:Djs ZerotoHero:Fakes DJs Zen:MichaelBurian,Roman Bush: LondonElektricity, MC DJsPhatzoo,EddieSender, DirtyDancing:DJsTommy Opera House:DJsJoshWink, BoraBora:DJsAngel DJs Lafayette,Vitti,Ronny SoultrainWeekender: Plastique:DJsTom SmokinFriday:DJsBig SoundHeadquarters: Funky SoulParty: DJ DobrejVečer: EarDrum Drumstation: Vivacity+:DJsCubik, MixxMaxx:DJsMilan DJsJakubV., BélaN., RecyclitNight: Ragga! ColorfulHouse

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