Results tagged “avant garde” from Andy Best

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So, with the Pet Conspiracy gig tomorrow at Mao all eyes were on their daring new back to nature photo shoot - as reported by our man Jake here. I then followed up by reporting on previous avant garde antics by Shanghai's own Torturing Nurse here

But stop the press. If, like me, you have the Pleasure To Be Here CD from Boys Climbing Ropes  then you have probably opened it up and checked the inside.

Kaboom! In your faces! BCR, also on Friday's bill, were way ahead of the game coming in before either of the aforementioned acts. By the way, you all know I'm using those 'in your face' type comments ironically ..right? But, also, you know ...snap!!


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Avant Garde-off: Torturing Nurse revisited

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pet conspiracyHave you seen the Pet Conspiracy post over at Jake's blog yet? Go there now. And watch the video - they're in town on Friday night at Mao - watch the video

So, Pet Conspiracy started out as an art project and this kind of thing (pictured) is fairly normal in other arts scenes around the world. But in case you were getting all excited about the potential provocateur action hitting the shores of China - let's have a look back to a show in Live Bar last year.

Before we kick things off - it all started with a chat with Ben Hogue out back of Yuyintang, then went on to his blog and ended up on my blog here.

Feel free to catch up in your own time.

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So, here's the simple explanation. Shanghai's avant garde scene has it's bar set by noise artists Torturing Nurse. A little over a year ago, with pictured artist Jia Die soon on her way off to study in Sweden, they threw on a special performance with Beijing noise-ist Yan Jun called torturing Torturing Nurse.

You can guess what happened ... or can you. This is ultra conservative China after all. 

Here's the video - Youtube only - find a way, it's mind blowing.

It's in that gallery that you'll find these and more. In your face, everybody who is not Torturing Nurse. And did I mention, watch that video and go to the show on Friday - Pet Conspiracy are going to be awesome.

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Other people's Youtube: that Torturing Nurse show

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Just two posts back I blogged about the "torturing Torturing Nurse" show at Live Bar and linked Ben Hogue's write up. The band members are bagged, tied to a table in a plastic bag and even stripped naked and taped to the mic stand. Yan Jun keeps this going until their contact mics are  giving out a sound show to rival the most disturbing horror flick you've seen.

I swung by their Douban page and saw that they posted video footage of the show. Here's part two which is when the sound gets going. Welcome to the far end of the scale. 



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