I always have a hard time presenting my work, I like to blaze through it, the same way I listen to the radio, skipping channels…

fortunately, tonight in Mexico City, I get to show using the pechakucha format: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 8 minutes.

I will be showing an overview of works, and talking a little about my upcoming solo show at Yautepec Gallery (may 8!) here in DF.

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as a side note I stumbled upon N-RON replete with photo by the magnificent Gaia in  this month in Kid Kameleon’s column…buy it, or better yet,

download it

art fairs— crowe´s critique and analysis of the market in this month´s art forum seems to get closest to my feelings about art fairs…

but there is something nice about FEMACO this year, some hopeful hopelessness at the very least. Getting to see some really compelling local works, slammed up against and harnessing the industry´s consumptive energies, only serves to further build my hopes up about the possibilities of a levelling of the playing fields in the art markets. The capital that circulates seems to overdetermine so much of even the most localized production. But sometimes some works sneak through unscathed.

Or others choose to point to the M-C-M1 farce by harnessing it´s very spectacle.

The complexities of the market here seem to me to lean towards concepts of hybrid markets, turning much more to  Jan Nederveen Pieterse than more traditional notions of world systems theories from Balibar and Wallerstein. Like the armory, this is an art fair. But situated against such obvious combined and uneven development, critical works seem to have a lot more sway…or at least point to the fallacy of the art market.

Damo Suzuki pasó los últimos años de la década de 1960 viajando por Europa, tocando en las calles, durante la etapa final de su adolescencia.

Cuando Malcolm Mooney, vocalista de CAN, dejó dicha banda, Holger Czukay y Jaki Liebezeit encontraron a Suzuki cantando en una calle de Munich. Invitaron a Suzuki a integrarse a CAN y se presentó con ellos en un concierto esa misma tarde.

En los años 70 Damo Suzuki, junto con CAN y otros grupos como Kraftwerk, Faust y Neu! inventaron un nuevo género musical conocido como Krautrock, que se definió como un sonido diferente al rock británico y norteamericano e influenció a musicos como Brian Eno, David Bowie y más tarde a Joy Division y los Happy Mondays, por citar algunos.

Desde 1983 Damo Suzuki, ya en solitario, ha desarrollado un proyecto en el que incluye músicos locales de diversos países (denominados “Sound Carriers”) en conciertos que son sesiones de improvisación. De esta manera integra y organiza una “red” de colaboradores llamada Damo Suzuki Network.

El próximo 18 de abril Damo Suzuki se presentará por primera vez en México en el PASAJE AMERICA.

Se integran como “Sound Carriers” Alexis Ruiz (Jessy Bulbo), Carlos Navarrete (Six Million Dollar Weirdo, Los Fancy Free), Carlos Icaza (Los Fancy Free, El Pan Blanco), Martín Thulin (Los Fancy Free), Jay de la Cueva (Titán, Moderatto) y Julián Lede (Titán, Silverio).

Después del concierto se realizará un evento en el que Nuevos Ricos presentará un nuevo lanzamiento:

CONFETI DE MIERDA, una compilación de nuevas bandas asesinas.

Invitado especiál:

dj n-ron (brooklyn, ny)

Concierto: 18 de abril
10 PM
Pasaje América
Calle 5 de Mayo # 7 int. 1, Centro Histórico
México D.F.
Costo: $ 50.00
Boletos a la venta en la sede el día del evento.

Para mayor información visite:

www.damosuzuki.de
www.nuevosricos.com
www.pasaguero.com

95% of 18-24 year olds steal music, if you are the RIAA.

what is the strategy? over and over, a struggle to respond.

one the one hand, trent reznor (of the Reznor industrial heating family, also of nine inch nails) says just give it away as mp3.

orthodox folks (like Reznor) dis Radiohead´s efforts as too low res (160 mbps not 320 mbps) and too difficult to use- nonetheless, seems like a new strategy. Their cd sales were still atop the charts–the fetish object can´t be denied.It is certainly a step away from the main industry´s commercial strategy, which seems to be catch theives and lose shitloads of money.

I think that it will be all about the live experience. The spectacle. The show. And the rarified fetish object sold as art.

Hence, all my upcoming audio releases will be all downloadable digital for free or donation, and I will create a few vinyl copies.

That´ll show em.

here´s a mix that will be played differently live at fashion week in Mexico City, the 17th of April. (tracklist)

Listen Now:

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how does that make you feel?
here is an amazing googlemap mashup of the cost of war, with breakdowns by state by mibazaar.