Annual Industrial Report
dal 29/12/2005 al 28/1/2006
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art
29/12/2005
Annual Industrial Report
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
A series of events documenting the strategic and conceptual development of Throbbing Gristle and their own independent label Industrial Records. As previously only Velvet Underground during the time of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Throbbing Gristle did not only break with nearly all existing conventions of pop music, but consequently violated the rules, which normally establish a civilising consensus.
Exhibition about the phenomenon Throbbing Gristle and their Label Industrial Records
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Throbbing Gristle, Volksbuhne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Arsenal Kino, and Mute Records are pleased to announce an
outstanding series of events, which will take place at the end of this year.
On the occasion of the release of Part Two, their first regular studio album since
25 years, which will be distributed by Mute Records in February 2006, there will be
two rare gigs of the legendary and in all respects groundbreaking band Throbbing
Gristle, on view on December 31, 2005 and January 1, 2006 at the Volksbuhne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The band performs in original formation, consisting of Cosey
Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Genesis
Breyer-P-Orridge.
Already on December 30, 2005, 8 - 11 pm, KW Institute for Contemporary Art opens an
exhibition titled Annual Industrial Report, curated by Markus Muller and documenting
the strategic and conceptual development of Throbbing Gristle and their own
independent label Industrial Records, which will be on view until January 29, 2006.
As previously only Velvet Underground during the time of Andy Warhol's Exploding
Plastic Inevitable, Throbbing Gristle did not only break with nearly all existing
conventions of pop music, but consequently violated the rules, which normally
establish a civilising consensus.
Their public appearances owed to Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and were quite
literally bordering on the edge of legality but are without any doubt one of the
most important contributions to late 70s performance- and body art. With just a
handful of album releases between 1976 and 1981, TG were able to invent the genre
nowadays called Industrial Music and laid among other things one of the foundations
for the development of Techno culture.
With the exclusive support of the private archives of all of the four band members
the exhibition will incorporate photographs, manifestos, letters, and other examples
of TG's myriad modes of communication like mailings, recordings, newsletters,
fanzines and street propaganda. It will thus be able to present the conceptual
processes and iconographies, which TG successfully used to subversively undermine
both the art- and the pop-music-world, capitalistic forms of organizing the
commodification of it's products. By employing now classical strategies of
institutional critique, the band realized micro-capitalistic forms of organizing the
commodification of its products. These strategies and Throbbing Gristle's label
Industrial Records will be one of the main foci of the exhibition. In addition, KW
will exclusively present the first TG-film Heathen Earth as well as - after its
world premiere at the cinema Arsenal on December 29th, 9 pm - the new film TG live
at the Astoria, London.
Opening December 30, 2005, 8 - 11 pm
More information on the individual events can be found at:
http://www.kw-berlin.de
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
http://www.fdk-berlin.de
http://www.throbbing-gristle.com
http://www.mute.de
http://www.industrial-records.com
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