AR004: ALGAEVERSE 2009

with all these images -- words are almost unnecessary. almost.

the full shake-down will be available on the soon-to-be relaunched punk monk website including the complete rhineflesh-vaghörn test results, ALGAE RHYTHM film series, the stop motion record of the night AND the finished ALGAEVERSE!

the launch of "ginger rhythm" the first in our beverage line with civilised pig AKA dan simmonds, was an unmitigated success & the mulled wine kathleen & i brewed up went down a treat as well.

what busy bees we all were.

[pix shot by punk monk dave cheng]

of playdoh, polystyrene & perfect bubbles...

yesterday was the day before ALGAE RHYTHM 004, punk monk propaganda's monthly intermedia happening. some punk monks & a civilised pig got together at the corner shop for a quietly humming sunday working bee in order to make it happen.

everyone had a turn in the box before getting back out of it just so we appreciate our default modus operandi, which is a world without the constraint of walls. sometimes it's too easy to take what we have for granted.

conspiracy afoot

last night all of our combined hard work culminated in the third ALGAE RHYTHM going down christening "the corner shop" with karina, kathleen and dermot curating turn me on, dead man flying our punk monk propaganda banner high into the sydney sky & onto adjacent alley walls.

a fascinating fusion of a wizard of oz & the dark side of the moon resulted in dorothy's surrender and a few curious neighbours viewing our spectacular from bedroom windows & the streets beneath. we climbed the walls up onto the roof, watched bemused & then began to dance like 50 foot amazon roswellian meets femme fatale women shadow puppets. charlie's angels begone.

meanwhile the JFK room had limits of its own control as peeps watched multiple synchronised computer installations from the comfort of the grassy knoll in a small dark room. in the main indoor space stanley kubrick's moon landing played and that's where the base reversion really began... jim jarmusch was with us in spirit.

another handhewn zine plus subversive manifesto were distributed throughout the night by shady operatives ensuring that the double agent mythology was kept alive. turn me on and over dead man.

amongst the murder and mayhem there were only a few sangria fuelled tragedies before the peace pipe came out. thank you everyone for braving the cold on a wintry night and participating in another of our social intermedia experiments.

AR 0:04 is slated for july 2009. clare & i will hold the fort as resident curators serving up twisted chick flicks whilst others flee to melbourne international film festival.