Dystopia: Strange Renewal
Subterranean Circle is presenting “Dystopia” for those who savor unusual and intense performance art. This post-apocalyptic dance party at JJ’s Bohemia on Friday night will feature a mighty experiment in sideshow performance, along with the return of Chattanooga favorite Emotron and the startling Mose Giganticus.
“Z” and “Pinky”, featured performers of the Sadistic Scenic City Sideshow, will engage in a live collaboration with Neon Viking Funeral and Secret Guilt to present sideshow acts with a dynamic, improvisational, electronic ambience. Having seen these acts individually, I greatly anticipate their interactive combination. This seems a natural melding of unnatural performance sure to propel the whole presentation into new levels of the weird.
Additionally, Emotron will bring his own improvisational music and performance mix to this party. Hard to define, but stunning in its impact, Emotron works within an “anti-beauty” concept that mixes his original music, performed with a sequencer, with a vulgar regard for “fierce theatrics” songs combined with rants and strange stories, often other people’s stories told in his own way, combining verbal weirdness with raw music into memorable bits.
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