Welcome to
mind plasma!, the performance art of TJ Richter.
Inside this site is a microcosm of
mind plasma! funk: an extensive art gallery in "Pics," clips from a full-on performance art documentary in "Videos," a book-sized glob of writing in "Blog Entries," and brain-bending soundscape storytelling in "
mind plasma! music."
For more info click here:
www.mindplasma.net
For bookings click here:
[email protected]
Remember
mind plasma! is not just in the artwork, it's all around you, perpetually pulsating with weirdness and fun. Look for it!
Using cartoons on a huge projection screen, otherworldly sound effects, and crazy vocal processing TJ RICHTER tells spoken-word stories that trip you out and love you. Wearing bizarre costumes with strap-on laser body parts, plasma man! executes extreme trampoline leaps through his own projections, BONG! Enjoy wiggles of giggles and contortions of distortion in a screaming daydreaming wave-space of imagination, ZAP! Photo: Doug Krimmer.
Slow Dancing with Stingrays (Local Solo, WPCA, 04/06/01)
My favorite photography store girl, Steph White, had beautifully sparkly skin, especially when surrounded by iridescent precision-ground German lens.
"You've got that preciously prismatic Venus De Milo rainbow glow, soaring with ice crystals in alto-cirrus clouds at twenty-five thousand feet, shattering sharp shards of violent violets, tourniquets of turquoise twisting in bizarre quasars of stars."
Exploiting Underage Ocean Mammals (Movie Clip 09/17/03)
The underage girl in the 1995 Calvin Klein ad below inspired the underage ocean mammal in the Aqua Dyke magazine on left. Click on the video above for more details.
Extreme shaving with duct taped toilet seat to prevent unintelligent electrocution by intelligent lighting. Milwaukee City Lifestyle Magazine, 2001. Photo: Bradley Meinz.
DJ/VJ club kid insectoid spawning a twin laptop audio/visual mind-meld mating season. Photo: James Kloiber.
Handshakes & Lovin' Hugs (Drop Bass Network 12/31/00)
Anyone can say they "rock it," big deal. The proof is in how many people are happy to see you after the show. "Handshakes and Lovin' Hugs" shows everyone loves the TJ Richter
mind plasma! show: candy girls, midgets, homosexuals, even chess-playing preppy dorks. It's proof that "the plasma!" truly is universal.
mind plasma! performance art-umentary (05/15/04)
A documentary directed by Andrew Rosas
Part comedy, drama, and deceptively funny-yet-serious strip-mall philosophy,
mind plasma! follows performance artist TJ Richter through a series of brain-bending interviews and screaming daydreaming performances, climaxing in a strap-on laser-spewing love fest of
mind plasma!
"strange costumes...bizarre stories...a fascinating array of visual and sound effects...realize the outright addictiveness of his absurd sense of humor"
– Steven Snyder, TimeOut Movie Critic
Severe Quinolone Reaction
Those of you who know me have heard me complain for years about my health, and I didn't know what was wrong. From December '03 to January '04 I took a drug called Cipro which is a fluoroquinolone, and had a severe reaction which I am still struggling with today. There were no warnings on the drug at the time, so I did not know what was happening to me. Since the FDA approves drugs before they are throughly tested, and drug companies are not required to contact you with a new safety issue, it took me years to find out what happened. This is a clip of Bob Grozier's negative reaction, watch this video.
WARNING: Antibiotic fluoroquinolones (or quinolones) can cause severe nerve and tendon damage. A fluoroquinolone reaction or "floxing" (like flogging) attacks the central nervous system and is worse than a thousand bad LSD trips, worse than a thousand heroin withdrawals. Since fluoroquinolones function by doing DNA damage, and there is no genetic pre-screening process for this drug, a severe quinolone reaction can happen to anyone.
Click here for a list of antibiotic quinolones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinolone
Click here more information on quinolone poisoning:
http://www.fqvictims.org
Aerodynamic Bunny Ears Help Stabilize My Flight
To recover from a severe prostate infection and Cipro reaction TJ needed to exercise, so he started snowboarding. On Easter Sunday, at Ski Brule in the Michigan UP, it was half off lift tickets if you wore bunny ears. You can take the man out of performance art, but you can't take the performance art out of the man. A goth rockin' snow-bunny hoppin' stoned snowboarding super-session ensued. Play this video AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE to feel the musical, whistlin'-wind-rippin' vibrations. Footage thanks to "Navy Dave" Nastal who skied backwards at speed while operating a video camera! Edited by TJ Richter, April 8, 2007.
