"ICE-Z: International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology"
2004/01/16 london, uk
Message from Militant Esthetix
Dear all
This should be of some interest to you in one way or another.....
PLEASE WILL YOU COME AND TAKE PART IN THIS EVENT! KINDLY!!
As announced in The Wire for January 2004 ...
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ICE-Z: International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology
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will take place on Friday, 16 January 2004, 10.00-5.30
at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT
Nearest London Underground station: Mornington Crescent. (Also close,
King Cross.)
EXPECT: PAPERS.....DISCUSSIONS.....QUIZ......LIVE MUSIC....TAPED
MUSIC.....TABLEAU VIVANT...MOUSTACHE SCULPTURE...WANDA THE VACUUM
CLEANER.....JOKES....
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Admission: 3 Pounds Sterling or 4 Euros
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Drawing its speakers from Vancouver, Rome, Leipzig, Paris, Cambridge and
Manchester and London, ICE-Z is a summit meeting for theorists and
activists who believe an entertaining, scabrous and CRITICAL popular
culture is both possible and necessary. We are Marxists who take
seriously Brecht's comment about the proximity of dialectics to
laughter. The event is suitable for Zappa fans, Zappa detractors,
radical philosophers, anti-capitalists, musicologists, adornoites &
pop-studies victims everywhere. It is TOTALLY unfunded by any commercial
or academic institutions. Please SPREAD THE WORD!!! United Mutations
& Intercontinental Absurdities Inc are today REBORN (and let's not
forget the Everpopular Intercontinental Lentil) ...
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Er, Where Were We?
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The pressure of competition forces cultural producers to niche-market
their wares to specific layers of the social totality, thus - whatever
their "ostensible politics" - confirming capitalism's division
of labour. Yet currently the image of "global unity" has never
been so widely invoked, both in politics (the Don't Attack Iraq
demonstrations of 15 February 2003) and pop music (an international
market). What would a GENUINE UNIVERSAL MUSIC sound like, and could we
bear to listen to it? Frank Zappa's rebarbative cocktail of Dada, Avant,
Shock Rock and Rhythm'n'Blues still obsesses those of us who demand mass
art gives us experience rather than identity. This is the first time
these off-piste cultural irritants have collected together, but it won't
be the last. Come and stick your oar in while the water's fresh.
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Papers (some academic, some, er, less so ...) include:
Marco Maurizi (Rome) on Theodor Adorno's piano compositions for
children, pigs & ponies, Zappa's principle of structural
interruption.
Kiki Benzon
(Vancouver) on Frank Zappa & Felix Guattari.
Simon Prentis (Hampstead) on "The Torture Never
Stops".
Stu Calton (Levenshulme) "Water Melon In Easter Hay: the
Poverty of the Individual Spirit".
Sean Bonney (Vauxhall) on the poetics of Trout Mask Replica.
Gamma (Kentish Town) on Snorks, Shopping Bags & Madness.
Keston Sutherland (Cambridge) on Zappa's Prosody.
Dominique Jeunot
(Paris) on Animals & Dogs in Zappa's Oeuvre.
Esther Leslie/Ben Watson (Somers Town) "Some
Reflections on Zappology as Gnomic Ritual".
Jürgen Gispert (Leipzig) on The Conservatism of Easy Rider:
Zappa's Critique of "Freedom".
Richard Hemmings (Leicester) on Randomness in Zappa's Oeuvre.
Paul Sutton (St Mary's) on Iain Sinclair, Zappa, Para-Science
& Alchemy.
Francesco Gentile (Rome) "Xenoarrangements, or, Insane
Grafts Day-Dreamed by a Zappa hardcore Fanatic not inclined to exit his
Monomaniacal World".
Les Fils de
L'Invention (Paris) Tableau Vivant concerning the baroque composer
and cellist Francesco Zappa (fl. 1763-88).
Eleanor Crook (Cheshunt) moustache installation.
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In the evening (7.00pm) Evil Dick & the Banned Members will play
their fiendish glitz-rock randomness'n' tunes at the College Arms on
Crowndale Road. DJs. Quiz. Prizes. Sandwiches.
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Did someone say Fast 'n Bulbous?
What you see damp, Parasitic!
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e-details from <www.militantesthetix.co.uk>
press Entree and then click on
"ICE-Z: International Conference of Esemplastic
Zappology", or, if you prefer, try <www.esemplasm.co.uk>
and choose the ICE-Z option
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This conference has been organised by Ben Watson, who communicates best
via telephone (020) 7388 8679 and meetings in the Halfway House pub in
Camden Town ...
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This Xmas is ugly and it wants to die
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Get you to www.militantesthetix.co.uk
Jeder Mensch seine eigene Website.........
-- info: Esther Leslie
A
note from Esther and Ben at Militantesthetix to inform you that ...
ICE-Z:
International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology
...
which took place at Theatro Technis on Crowndale Road on Friday, 16
January 2004, has now been put ONLINE ...
inscrutable
philosophical papers ... sentimental reminiscences ... poodle
revelations ... golden turds & Zen Buddhism ... Peter Frampton's
wrist array ... the true meaning of HRATCHE-PLCHE & Kaiser Rolls ...
Cheepnis versus the commercial sublime ... materialist polemic ...
rocket science ... insane grafts ... cute photographs of delegates in
front of the speakers' pink satin tablecloth (stills from Esther's
camcorder or Bruno Le Tohic's camera) ... anti-Mojo ranting ... pearls
from the Output Marco-Structure (Maurizi extensions) ... photos of the
drinking and dancing to Zappa records at the College Bar ... Evil Dick
& the Banned Members ... Les Fils de l'Invention in wigs and drag
portraying Francesco Zappa (fl. 1763-88) ... a freakmap of Crowndale
Road ... late-nite discussions in front of anti-Nyman placards ... as
advertised on a slip of paper given to select members of the audience
for the Grandmothers with Don Preston, Roy Estrada & Napoleon Murphy
Brock at the Borderline last night ... the secret word is:
www.militantesthetix.co.uk/ice-z/ice-z.htm
PS:
People in London (or those anywhere who can access webradio on www.resonancefm.com)
listen to Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm (GMT) on Wednesday to hear
Brendon Burton on Beefheart, politics and world music !!!
!!! !!! !!!
Get
you to www.militantesthetix.co.uk
Jeder Mensch seine eigene Website.........
-- info: Esther Leslie