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23.9.09
La Troupe Copenhagen Burlesque
Were you one of the lucky few who enjoyed their amazing show back in the good glamorous past, right here in Copenhagen? Let us drink a toast to beauty, desire, dusty dreams and long life!
On the 26th of September 2009, Club de la Faye swept through Hotel Skt.Petri, and fiction pimped Secrets and Seduction, Copenhagen Burlesque
22.6.09
The Call of Sirens & Deserters
Club de la Faye in cooperation with YourSpace,
Roskilde Festival 2009
The myth of the sirens
The sirens, who lived in a meadow on an island off the coast of Sicily, were irresistible and lured sailors to their deaths. Those who listened to their songs could never leave and would therefore die on the banks of the island. So said the myth.
No ship had ever passed the isle, not until the day Odysseus succeeded in tricking the sirens. Following Circe's advice, Odysseus plugged the ears of his crew with wax, so they could not hear anything. Odysseus had the men tie him to the mast of the ship and instructed them not to untie him until they had passed the isle. And so they did. The crew only knew 'the song's danger but nothing of its beauty'. This allowed them to row 'with all their strength' moving the ship away from the Sirens.
Critical theory
It was in fact the task of Odysseus' crew: 'The laborers must be fresh and concentrate as they look ahead, and must ignore whatever lies to one side' thereby fulfilling themselves through work, wrote Adorno and Horkheimer. Odysseus instead is able to listen to the song remaining 'bound impotently to the mast' of the ship. The bonds prevent him from being seduced and the danger presented by the Sirens is subsequently neutralized. As a result of this the song of the Sirens is completely perverted: it 'becomes a mere object of contemplation – becomes art.
Recreation of the isle of the Sirens
Club de la Faye will manifest them selves as the weakened sirens, who now seek vengeance over Odysseus, the man who got away. The Sirens will regain their power, if they succeed in seducing the festival guests into participating in a ritual, where they will be asked to sacrifice a piece of the life, that stands in the way of giving in to the world of music.
Debate
This critical performance manifestation, will serve as a platform for a debate about what it means to give you self to the experience in the world of music.
Sunday the 28. of July:
'The Call of Sirens and Deserters'
Thursday the 2. of July:
'The Drowning'
Sunday the 5. of July:
'The Act of Sacrifice'
1.6.09
Killer Brides
They'll hunt him down, and kill him!
On the 13th of June fiction was injected into Pumpehuset, on request by the people behind the newly established Underground Music Award Show. Besides housing the award show this night, Pumpehuset was also turned into the film-set of the infamous B-movie by Boris Production, Killer Brides.
Cast: Betsy-Rae Fire, Fanny Thunders, Sugar Storm, Vichy Volcano, Bolletta Hurricane and Johnny Catastrophy
Boris Productions
24.5.09
SWING PIGALLE &
CLUB DE LA FAYE
The 12th of July the time will be ripe!
For the first time Jazzhouse presents, in collaboration with Club de la Faye, a full night of live music and nightclubbing.
On the 12th of July 2009, you will step into a magical, dangerous and swinging universe..
Behind heavy red drapes flirtatious dancers and feather dressed women will welcome you, bienvenue, bon jour, this is the grand final of the Jazzfest!! The time is ripe, are you?!
Inside old New Orleans and Paris will be waiting, absinth-fairies, green, deep red in The Swamp. SwimCats and HepCats of the Swamp! In the swamp the SwimCats are starting to stir, and mind you if you start growing a tail.. Beautiful faces bear yellow teeth, opium-den, young man lures people in – once rich now poor but sharp!
Live music, band battle, dancers, lonesome trumpets in the bar and the grand ritual of getting in the right mood, of getting 'it', of getting there, because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, we will dance the floors beat and bless the night! So come join us and mind you if you don't get lost..
Until then good women and men!
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Graphical Design: Madeleine Kate McGowan
21.4.09
Fiction pimping Musikparlamentet
Project
In the spring of 2009 Fiction Pimps were contacted by Musikparlamentet (a debate forum with the purpose of developing the musicindustry), to assist in a new aesthetic facilitation of the monthly Musikparlament debate arrangement. Fiction Pimps then activated Club de la Faye, to re-think Musikparlamentets concept and to set up a Full Fiction.
The Reapers Lodge - A Full FictionClub de la Fayes work entails creating a unique and specific fiction for the given arrangement. In this case the idea of The Reapers Lodge was developed. The Reapers Lodge was imagined as a group of people who once in a while would appear to facilitate paradigm shifts in the world of music. The performers and the setting then acted as elements in this fiction.
As a part of the Full Fiction idea, every detail in the arrangement was thoroughly developed to fit the fiction and the specific place. The table was decadently set in a forrest-like setting, the smell of sugar, bird-sounds and monotonous voices lay in the air, all to seduce the guests into fiction.
Debate as Ritual
In viewing the whole event as one big ritual, Club de la Faye brings a new level to the arrangement. In this case the guests, when entering the buliding, were met by the female Reapers who initiated the Ritual of the One Hundred Cardinals.
"The Cardinal of Love has entered the building.
The Cardinal of Noise is also with us tonight"
- the sound of their voices mixing with the soundscape of birds and breaking glass...
Vision & IdeasFiction Pimps were also in the panel of experts that evening, airing views on the poetic life, everyone as artists, life being one grand stage and the democratization of art.
By each guest a pen and a piece of fabric was placed. The guests were urged to write down their greatest visions and dreams for the live musicscene. During the evening and during the debate, the Reapers collected all the pieces, with all the words, and from this they created a great gobelin of visions.
Club de la Faye
Performing and concept developement:
Djawed Kimouche
Gry Worre Hallberg
Hans Peter Mattias Tommila
Inga Gerner Nielsen
Iwona Rejmus
Louisa Yaa Aisin
Madeleine Kate McGowan
Marie-Lydie Nokouda
Sifka My Thrane
Sille Arendt
Ulf Rathjen Kring Hansen
Sound scape:
Ulf Rathjen Kring Hansen
Costumes:
Sille Arendt
Visuals:
Carolina Zell & Sara Lillie Gornitzka
Fiction Pimps:
Gry Worre Hallberg
Inga Gerner Nielsen
Madeleine Kate McGowan
Contact:
sirenerne@gmail.com
To read more about Musikparlamentet follow this link:
7.4.09
Fiction Injecting 'Blip!' at Cph.Jazzhouse
Mystery Dream
Fiction Injection
In Club de la Fayes work with the Blip! arrangements in Copenhagen Jazzhouse, the idea was to inject fiction into the breaks between the concerts, hence the term Fiction Injection. The following three documentations: Mystery Dream, The Sinful Assistant and The Bride She'll Never Be, are all examples of Fiction Injections.
Fiction
The inspiration for Mystery Dream was found in black & white surrealistic movies, dream analysis, Naked Lunch and shivering Hitchcock films.
A bite of the soundscape
A male voice:
"She looked up at me, blinked. I wanted to ask her what it meant. But the next thing I knew...she was gone...As I was searching for her, my eyes caught yet another woman... she was standing on a staircase with something in her hand. I can't make out what it was. I think it might have been some sort of big bug... She was shouting. But no sound came out... Then the staircase started trembling...I was falling... I can't figure it out... I had the feeling that all the dames were the same... some sort of creature... Dr., what does this all mean?"
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