tuesday 22 and wednesday 23 september – 6>10 pm
Various places, Bologna
The meeting points and transitions will be communicated in real time via the page http://this-instead.fandom.com
YEAH YOU (GB)
THIS INSTEAD
sound performance, production Xing/Live Arts Week, italian première
Living surrealist art project YEAH YOU, inclusively present their ‘Kh-art’ Car-art THIS INSTEAD. A dismantling of the family/reality construct, reflecting on the meaning of social drive, and the interdependence of the individualist driven driver. The nuclear family Car, designed as facilitator of A to B intergenerational compliance whilst optimising domestic/commercial ‘ERRANDs’, now THWARTED WAYWARD to become a futurist unused found object, taken as a facilitator of music production and critical reflexivity in the public space.
A car THIS INSTEAD
A shop THIS INSTEAD
A form THIS INSTEAD
In Bologna it will be possible to attend live THIS INSTEAD reaching YEAH YOU’s car in their stops, by following their movements over the course of 4 hours through their real time updates via via the Fandom Wikipage THIS INSTEAD. The audience will be left to their own devices to internally debate the question of SOUL vs ROLE these performances might arouse.
The basic method of THIS INSTEAD implies that the implications of any basic situation you have before you may be infinitely re-interpreted, that continuously metamorphosing interpretations of material and immaterial data are the closest you will get to a truth (a word we only bother to mention since we are as a species so historically possessed by its industry).
Re-interpretable situations
Including subjectivity
Including debt
Including Brexit
Including the euro funnel
Including Function
WHAT
We have must left to think of on the brink of these insteads.
YEAH YOU is Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi, father/daughter from Wales but citizens of the world, with ever-changing logistic between Vienna, Kampala, Berlin, Cairo, Newcastle. Improvised musical and geographical excursions are the base of their Kh-art’ Car-art. The project has an innate portability. It grew from a desire to make something during every spare moment, using compact recording gear to turn the usual banal everyday family drives to into spontaneous recording sessions in the car. Indeed, warped into identity politics, this could be an anti-formulaic deconstruction of the nuclear family and of psychic uniform, which normative roles serve to sustain. In itself is just an improv life stream. Diving in with an admittedly involuntary entropic approach, YEAH YOU provide something to enjoy/not enjoy, where the content shifts depending on how many supermarket discounts they found. “It’s really about having developed an approach to performance which eradicates its framing as ‘separate’ from what people think of as daily life”. Living under the suspicion that routine suffocates, the pair satisfy the impulse to create indiscriminately and on the go by carrying around a pocketful of miniature speakers, dictaphones, samplers, plus camera or mic – in all, more than enough to suffice. What indeed could be more late modern in music than the nomad musician travelling without any instrument at all – besides something to capture it all on? Thomas’s distorted, alluringly jarred synthesisation acts as a jagged platform for Brandhi to writhe improvised stream of consciousness lyrical trips: a lo-fi noise or a dismantled freestyle. They have recently performed at Borealis, Counterflows, Supernormal festivals. After their first improptu songs, they released two LPS, Id Vendor and KRUTCH, on UK/Berlin imprint Slip and the cassette Vhod on Alter/Opal Tapes.
electronics and voices Elvin Brandhi & Gustav Thomas
production Xing/Live Arts Week