Saturday 27 October 2007, 16.00–20.00

For UBS Openings: Saturday Live Arena at Tate Modern, Discoteca Flaming Star, including catriona shaw tape miss le bomb rita mcbride françois boué lentejas michael mahalchick beads wolfgang mayer bene abel ines schaber jo mitchell protea gina arena cristina gomez barrio cables surprising surprises amber gb and pinkytan, will perform Ellipses (Electric Birdhouse) in Rita McBride’s installation Arena within the exhibition The World as a Stage. They present a performance of text, music, voices, films by François Boué and sounds.

arena
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different showing/observing/witnessing/listening/projecting/singing possible standing points
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discoteca flaming star
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musica with accordeon
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gina
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hysterical performance attacks
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spoken words
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film/s
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told stories
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songs
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electric / dance
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make-up / aacb/bdac
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Discoteca Flaming Star thus states: 'Through conceptual and musical transformations of/in/around the songs they try to create visuals, texts, scenographies and a musical frame in which one of the main aims is to challenge the memory of the audience: moving it into unexpected collective and individual territories. A memory for something in the future, for something that has not happened yet and maybe never will.

They are irreverent, dissolute fans exploiting their own knowledge and lack thereof, staging the desire to be on stage and showing off. Inspired by Anita Berber, Warhol’s Wig, Ghosts, Rita McBride’s Arena, Gregg Bordowitz, Mary Shelley, Karl Valentin & Lisl Karlstadt, the Vienna Group, Alvaro, Joey Arias and Raven O, they have called the outcome of what they do hardcore karaoke.'

Discoteca Flaming Star presents songs about love, consumption, fervour and feminism; belly-dancing, tearjerkers and things that go together, even though they shouldn’t.’

Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer have worked since 1998 as the foundation of Discoteca Flaming Star.

François Boué  lives and works in New York and has been showing three-dimensional works involving architecture, landscape and urban situations since 1981.  He began showing films in 1999.  His films have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt among others.

Tate Modern  In the exhibition
Free with exhibition ticket
Limited capacity
For all ages

  

This event is related to the The World as a Stage exhibition