ACEPHALE
2002
THE WHIPPING ANGEL
Gallery BuryZone, Bratislava Sk
Composition in darkness and light, merging Greek mythology with modern French eroticism.
SEED OF THE BLACK SUN
Illuseum, Amsterdam Nl
Philosophical argument over disinheritance, the acceptance of lost dreams.
SUCCUBUS OF NIGHT
Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam Nl
In the teeth of night one man breaks a hole in the wall which unleashes an evocation from the past. An exotic experiment bathed in red light and smoke.
THE CORPSE-GRINDERS OF BERLIN- novelette published
Pine Slopes Press, Johannesberg SA
Fake fiction novel antidote which plunders the plight of modern Europe.
SCAPEGOAT FOR ZUNA
Kut, Bratislava Sk
Revival of ancient Eastern ritual; a call for the blaze of sacrifice in the modern world.
TWILIGHT OF THE CENTAUR and
ENCHANTED FOREST CONCERT
Illuseum, Amsterdam Nl
Thoughts on existence of a centaur written by Zuna Deneb Algiedi; medieval concert about the lost city.
2001
RABBIT’S MOON (article published)
Necronomican 4, London E
Acephale interview with filmmaker Kenneth Anger.
ASH OF MARCEL DUCHAMP
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam Nl
Reflections on the state of hedonism in the modern art structure.
FRIEDRICH ON THE EDGE OF CIVILIZATION
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam Nl
A 12 year old child sings of harmony and discord, with Merzedes Sturm-Lie.
THE BIRTH OF A SILVER SUN
Galeria Priestor, Bratislava SK
Dissected ritual dramatization of Isis and Osiris myth. Blood streaming from a broken violin, leaving huge scar on a female body.
MARK OF THE BEAST #1
Gallery Drantmann, Brussels B
Found object performance about the castration of America.
MARK OF THE BEAST #2 (for Yves Klein)
Kanal 11, Brussels B
A fire lit for the imagination of the public, radical violin.
MARK OF THE BEAST #3
Crown Gallery, Brussels B
(in collaboration with Erwin Olaf exhibition)
The naked business man of Pasolini enters the void of existence, without words and only a scream of longing to defend himself.
THE CENTAUR
Filmakadamie Overtoom, Amsterdam Nl
Three performances concerning the remembering of a hidden past; the flowers of melancholy.
IMMORAL TALES
So to do festival, Schloss Brolin D
Banquet for the finishing off of art once and for all.
THE ACCURSED SHARE
Kit Kat Club 3, Berlin D
Decapitation in the pleasure dome of debauchery. A radical re-working of George Batailles ‘The Dead Man.’
LA VIE SEXUEL BELGIQUE 5 (film)
Oostende, B
Self designed Acephale performance sequence in this film by Jan Bucquoy
2000
SONATA FOR THE MISSING
L’Archiduke, Brussels B
In the market corpse of democracy we find a nude at the piano. She was like ice, she was like a burnt out tree, shimmering in the industrial dusk.
REAL MEAT = REAL LOVE
Art complex Schloss Brolin, D
Prositutionalism in the fine arts- live. Art, desire, missing fingerprints, the smoke from the gas chambers.
LIE
Holland festival- De Balie, Amsterdam Nl
The apex of Acephale’s social-individual critique. Adornoesque thesis on collaboration.
PANDORA
Beganegrond, Amsterdam Nl
A severe twist of the veins between theatre and addiction- sensual fascism.
IN DER HOLLE DER LIBERTINS
Eschloraque, Berlin D
Crass exploitation of De Sade anaophelorastia, featuring Malte ‘coeur de fer’ Rudhart.
TOTE TAUBER
Kit Kat Club #2, Berlin D
Insurrection remix for the liberation of dark Easter.
THE JUDAS KISS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
Juliettes Literatursalon, Berlin D
Investigation into a bucket of snakes posing as love’s body. Featuring Blixa Bargeld.
FULL ENTRY
Austrian psycho-nights festival, Volksbrunne, Berlin D
Silencing silence, first action of the Artaud Tribunal.
1999
LOSE!
Dolle Molle, Brussels B
Virgin rituals, poetry, noise, etc. In collaboration with Asa Lie.
JE SUIS MOI-MEME LA GUERRE
CBK, Dordrecht Nl
Performance over the wasteland of the modern landscape, surrealist seduction. Dedicated to Breton’s Nadja.
H. BARBIN CONCERT
Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam Nl
Inauguration of the Caligula bossa-nova cycle, tribute to polysexuality.
KNUCLEHEAD
Museum Abteiberg, Munchengladbach D
Prelude to extreme temptation, dedicated to the spouses.
LIVE SNUFF
Cocopelli, Amsterdam Nl
Twilight immolation ceremony for Mammon.
WESTERBORK
Dam Square, Amsterdam Nl
Promethean attempt to return the holy fire.
SONIC AXE
Paradiso, Amsterdam Nl
Concert with Japanese musician Misami Akita (Merzbow).
NIETZSCHE INNA BABYLON (film)
Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo
Digital cinema with director Ian Kerkhof. Fake fiction film over Friedrich Nietzsche’s love affair with his sister Elizabeth.
APART/TOGETHER (film)
Amsterdam
Film over the gulf of intimacy, made with Alica Framis.
LOST IN THE MIST OF A DUBIUOS PAST
Stedlijk Buro, Amsterdam Nl
Performance installation in collaboration with Spanish artist Alica Framis.
DEATH COLUMN and ACEPHALIC REMIX (articles published)
Wax and Jardins, Amsterdam Nl
2 articles for this art magazine reflecting upon the death of death.
1998
ODE TO SEITO SAKAKIBARA
P gallery, Tokyo J
Seito had scandalized Japan at that moment. A 10 year old boy who had decapitated four schoolgirls. This concert-performance pontificated tersely with the situation.
SIGNAL TO NOISE (film)
VPRO, Hilversum Nl
Experimental documentary over contemporary noise music.
1996
FEMME DE SIECLE
Arti e Amicitae, Amsterdam Nl
Reinstatement of classical poetry with multiple film projections.
THE SUBLIME
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam Nl
Performance lecture over the beating out of transparency in the body.
LE SEXE ILLIMITE
Silo, Amsterdam Nl
Experiment in intimacy and seduction of the public. The necessary destruction for every resurrection.
1995
DIANA SHOOTS HER SILVER BOW
Filmakademie, Amsterdam Nl
Ritual slaughter of the white Goddess. In collaboration with Grace de la Luna.
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