TRAUMACHINE
TRAUMA \\ MACHINE
TRAUMA:
Eng,
trau·ma
/troumə,ˈtrômə/
noun
a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
TRAUM:
Ger.
noun
trans. dream
TRAUMACHINE.exe
TRAP G-ZEUS:
"wake up
wake up
wake up
wake up
x???
(i) WAKE UP every morning, livin’ in a dream // hop UP in my FLESHMACHINE
(i) WAKE UP every morning, livin’ in a dream // hop UP in my DEATHMACHINE
(i) WAKE UP every morning, livin’ in a dream // hop UP in my TRAUMACHINE
(i) WAKE UP every morning, life’s not what it seems // hop UP in my DREAMACHINE
//split reality at the seams//
WHERE IS THE //Reason//?
WHAT IS THE //Season//??
WHY ARE WE //Breathing//???
HOW DO WE //make Meaning//???
TIRED OF seeming (SEMEN), and not Being
i’m broken, BATTERED AND LEANIN’
they’re bleeding…
CROOKED ARROW, forward never straight—
They hate—
call me Prometheus—I GOT THE FIRE—
//They retaliate // I’M SCHEMING // They can’t relate//
ALL OF THE GODS I’m deceiving
//They believe in ME//
They’re singin’ //SONGS OF PRAISE//
//Ego Death does RAVE//
sexxx for days (DAZE), IN A SCHIZOPHRENIC HAZE,
BEHAVE //baby behave—i’m ur slave—TODAY—let’s trade//
SOULS for KISSES…
my./././.…"
CREDITS
PARTICIPANTS:
PoplurX
Clayton Westmeier
Ethan Cummins
Jonny Negron
TRAUMACHINE represents an interdisciplinary and dynamic space of emergent performative revolutionary freedom amidst the reality of a waking American Nightmare. The concept of the American Dream is inexorably connected to the alienating, psychologically colonialist enterprise of the culture industry as made manifest by the status quo. By reinterpreting the mythological narratives of contemporary American popular culture: PoplurX, Clayton Westmeier, Ethan Cummins, and Jonny Negron will engage in an immersive genre-bending performance at the crossroads of music as an evolution of the interpretation of intonation for means of survival, and the body (heartbeat) as the first instrument of sonic measurement (metronome). By utilizing aspects of dance, ritualistic improvisation, and free association, TRAUMACHINE, will open a suspended space of self-critical dialogue with the oppressive power structures of culture.The age of physical revolution has past us by; the only revolution left possible is a revolution of the mind.
