Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinization Weekender HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark curated by Catrin Mayer The Story so Far... Overheard Conversation at Swarmachine Concert Unknown Actor: It is known as “The Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinzation Weekender”, they take one guest with seven stewards for eight hours, once every eight months. Some say it’s because there are eight pieces on a chessboard, others say it's the eight-fold path to buddha or the eight trigram of the i ching, If you see it as science, you might even declare it is... because there are eight families in the periodic table. Anyways, people have to be vetted before they can enter the experience. They sign up on the premise that they will hear all the sounds of the universe come together after eight hours. I read this blog post, that people on the other side of the experience have declared this as reaching the exceptional state of void. Conduit: Oblivion Effect Unknown Actor: or the Pleasure Dome Conduit: Battery Effect Unknown Actor:..these states are then written into your epigenetic material and passed on to your future kin in their muscle, wetware matter, whatever else we eventually get hooked up to. I mean who wouldn’t want to give their future selves this gift?!?! Conduit: I wish my past self had...turning up or down my desired organs, ssssqueering them. Unknown Actor: (laughing) If you don’t believe the last part at least you go home with the experience and a documented recording of it all - sweat, tears, euphoria, just like when you used to get snapped on a roller coaster, mouth wide screaming. It takes place at Mu..I heard Omsk Social Club & Alexander Iezzi Nubis: Dylan Kerr Photo Credit: kunst -doku men ta tio nen .com and Fruit Salat Film Makeup: Nadia Kosh This work wouldn’t have been possible without the time to code it at Rupert Residency @rupert_residency , the hosted landscape at E-werk Luckenwalde, the 2 benevolent narrators, Shade and Everett and the 16 player-souls