Vispo - Make it new? / Album: Fiasko! - Kaboom Karavan

 

Captured, RTomens, 2024

'Make it new' said  Ezra Pound - right - well you could in the early 20th century, but now? Make the art new? What? Is there anything 'new', as in a totally new vision/idea whatever? 

Relax, it's fine. You see, whatever you make, if you're true to yourself, will be a new take on something, surely. Not a new angle or direction necessarily, but unique to you, so, in a way, new. And we know that newness for the sake of it as a guiding principle is likely to lead to that principle being the sum total, rather than some inherently interesting work. 

I often try techniques that are new to me because I can't keep doing the same thing. Whoever can, good luck to them. The problem with continually doing the same thing, especially in these days of a restlessly scrolling audience, is that it can all start to look the same. I hope to avoid that, but the viewers will decide.

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There's a carnival in town - something wicked this way comes? - it's filmed by Béla Tarr, scripted by Tristan Tzara and László Krasznahorkai and features mobile sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi and Jean Tinguely with music by Bram Bosteels (Kaboom Karavan) and guests, Bart Maris (trumpet), Raphael de Cock (igir, jadagan and uillean pipes) and Stefaan Smagghe (violin and sarangi). Let the Fiasko! begin! Acts include a a hologram of Tom Waits playing the swordfishtrombone, the recreation of a New Orleans voodoo ritual by dancing skeletons and a Charles Mingus impersonator doing a table dance whilst cutting up Free Jazz records on three decks. Voices from the dead played at half-speed are piped through speakers all around the ground. It's fantastic, terrifying, funny, charming, mysterious...and very much worth a visit.

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