A Neoist Research Event

talks, films, actions and music

3 Dec 2010
  • 20:30
  • Worm
  • Achterhaven 148, 3024 RC Rotterdam

Is it neo? Is it retro? Hard to grasp but all the more excitiing, this event sheds a light on a movement that does not want to be a movement. It's all in the name: neo- is a prefix, -ism is a suffix, but there is nothing in between!

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It's simple: forget about the question whether it's art, politics, philosophy or MADNESS, drop the idea of creative or intellectual property of the individual, trash the ego and start a RESEARCH. Grab the commonplace, the subversive, the absurd and the banal, and look at it from all sides.

Experiment, analyse, take risks and, most of all, don't take yourself too SERIOUSLY.
This was the request - come and witness the outcomes: maybe shocking, perhaps hilarious, brought to you by:

  • Neandertaler performances unlimited
  • Luther Blissett the Psychogeographer
  • The Acid Police Noise Ensemble
  • Martin Howse: Psychogeophysics for beginners
  • Applied arts by Rick van de Dood
  • DJ STRONT
  • tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
  • Monty Cantsin and his Telekommunisten: "You Never Listen To Me?!"

'Deploying a new miscommunication technology on the streets of Rotterdam: A hotline that inverts the timeline of communication so that the past flashes before your ears as you talk tothe future. "You Never Listen To Me?!" captures layers of miscommunication in an ever thickening stew of stored sound in an effort to find answers to the pressing questions of Neoism, questions which only miscommunication can Illuminate.'

Special feature:

  • N.O.Cantsin presents her book 'A NEOIST RESEARCH PROJECT', the first complete resource book on Neoism.
  • Neoist films from past and present
  • Entertainment and Irritainment