Jacqui Kuraj - performance, percussion and vocals.
George Bishop - alto, soprano sax, and contrabass clarinet
Everybody seeks power.
Raw powerlessness as power;
this links with the “animist roots” Kuraj speaks about.
The enslaved concubines of China tortured their feet to gain primacy. Kuraj pushes relentlessly.
From this dissonant clash we have to take heed.
To start anew, somehow differently and within us has to change in an unprecedented way.
Saints bleed. Kuraj’s realm is the sacrificial landscape.
- Gianfranco Mantegna
Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, IT.
Jacqui Kuraj is a media artist
whose use of the film and video medium deconstructs personal and anthropological layers of histories.
As a performance artist, musician, writer, director and sound designer, Kuraj’s video works include:
A treatment for Sundance channel's
”The Green” about the botanist Gabriel Howearth 2008, Madrugada 2007, Jac_Jam 2006, Pierrot in New York 2005, In…
Jacqui Kuraj - performance, percussion and vocals.
George Bishop - alto, soprano sax, and contrabass clarinet
Everybody seeks power.
Raw powerlessness as power;
this links with the “animist roots” Kuraj speaks about.
The enslaved concubines of China tortured their feet to gain primacy. Kuraj pushes relentlessly.
From this dissonant clash we have to take heed.
To start anew, somehow differently and within us has to change in an unprecedented way.
Saints bleed. Kuraj’s realm is the sacrificial landscape.
- Gianfranco Mantegna
Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, IT.
Jacqui Kuraj is a media artist
whose use of the film and video medium deconstructs personal and anthropological layers of histories.
As a performance artist, musician, writer, director and sound designer, Kuraj’s video works include:
A treatment for Sundance channel's
”The Green” about the botanist Gabriel Howearth 2008, Madrugada 2007, Jac_Jam 2006, Pierrot in New York 2005, In…
I am filming these sequences while visiting Trancoso, Bahia in Brazil.
When I arrived in Trancoso,
I befriended these wonderful musicians that you will hear and see. We would meet every evening under the black blue sky in the square of Trancoso, and whilst' waiting for other minstrels to wander in, we would eat Moqueca Baiana and down a few cold beers under the starry sky. Once the madrugada would commence off we would go, to one and than another musician's cabana in the hills or on the beach, and there we played music all night long until the dawn.
When I am playing the Djimbe, under my 'nom de plume' Jaca Pwal Adamu, one of the other musicians takes the camera and films ,,,
and so it went on for several weeks.
Filmo estas seqüências ao visitar Trancoso em Bahia, Brasil. Quando eu cheguei em Trancoso, eu tornei-me amigos com estes músicos maravilhosos que você ouve e vê aqui: Encontraríamos cada noite sob o céu estrelado no quadrado de Trancoso. Uma vez todos os músicos tinham reunido,…
an interactive sculpture/instrument made with harvested electronic parts. You can modulate both the sounds and the images by shading the light on the photocells. The lcd screen (from a discarded pda) is excited directly by the voltage output from the oscillator.
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