Saturday 3 February 2024
7pm
A new year begins. The darkness continues.
To let the exhibition Money or Life resonate with us for a while longer, we have invited the Norwegian static-oil-core band Statoil and poet Kristofer Flensmarck to usher in our 2024. A new beginning. A continued endeavour towards another world.
19.00 Doors open
19.30 Kristofer Flensmarck reads from the poetry collection Signal
20.15 Static-oil-core with Statoil
Kristofer Flensmarck
Signal (Anti, 2021)
Signal is an existential narrative, a varied monotony, a glowing drone composition of increasingly distant tones and flashes of light. An alphabetically organised attempt to include everything that is gradually disappearing in the great ongoing collapse. All anger, all beauty, all loss, all meaninglessness. All fear, all nature, all shit, all stillness, all time. A sign language invented after the contact has been broken, fragmented into indications and hints. The conceptual poetry is consumed and cancelled.
the past and the present
the charred
Statoil
Static-oil-core
Statoil is the sound of the sticky, black-gold liquid being pumped out of the earth, distributed over the globe and turned into capital. As the only preserver of the genre ‘static-oil-core’ (an instrumental genre of heavy, repetitive riffs and shrieking noise) they are the manifestation of the middle finger to hyper-capitalism, cynical raw material extraction and the lack of compassion for the common human.
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