TRAUMACHINE
TRAUMA \\ MACHINE
TRAUMA:
Eng,
trau·ma
/troumə,ˈtrômə/
noun
a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
TRAUM:
Ger.
noun
trans. dream
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.
