Aktions of Yes!
Documenting Human Actions & InterActions; Physical and Psychical Energies; Experience and Transience; Movement and Movements.
From Drone to Free-Jazz to Harshnoise.... From Drawing to Collage to Filmworks... the emphasis is on the humanness of intuitive creation and adhocist spontaneity.
Adhocracy... Movable Spaces... & Temporary Autonomous Zones
Pendu Org is seeking a permanent space to act as a salon for artistic and cultural actions, however Pendu Org recognizes that the 'art gallery' has become an old fashioned idea. Pendu Org believes that the concepts within adhocracy, movable space, and temporary autonomous zones provide the best alternatives to traditional and commercial art galleries. Adhocracy is a non-hierarchical structure with much in common with Rhizome Theory and decentralization associated with peer-to-peer computer networks. Radical guerilla organizations since Mao have been proponents of such an idea. No leaders, only doers. No bureaucracies, no pyramid power-structures; each member doing what they're best at, each according to their talents. Movable Spaces or Temporary Autonomous Zones (Hakim Bey) provide true freedom for the gallery, artists, and curators; floating from place to place, these movable spaces cannot be permanently shut down only temporarily shut down and can then re-appear whenever and wherever. Show your support by getting involved, write us at info(at)pendu.org to find out how.
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Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.
With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of loss from a situation, rather than gain.
The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.
The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Artists, writers, musicians, contributors, participants... don't be shy, say hello! Also, please send a friend request to Pendu Sound Recordings and check out some great music. Thanks! myspace.com/pendusound
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Artists and Cats, 2008
Artists send me pics of you and your cat!
I have set up a photo page of artists with their cats on Pendu Gallery... (pendugallery.com/artistsandcats). If you'd like to participate, send a jpeg or gif photo (not too large) to info(at)pendu.org. Make sure you add your name and cat's name to the email as well as a link to your myspace or website. Tell your friends as well, everyone's invited.
Out Now on Pendu Sound!
www.pendusound.com
OUT NOW:
Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 (2008)
Catalog# PSR-0030
Format: Cassette (C69)
35 tracks in 69 minutes! Rippers and Creepers is an eclectic mixtape and aural document featuring a killer clutch of underground artists, a snapshot of the “grotesque sounds of now”. Each group/artist contributes one short two-minute piece that either "rips" or "creeps" based on their own interpretation. The tracks compiled have been collaged and stitched together to make one long continuous track on each side of the tape resulting in a non-interrupted journey beyond the fringe. Curated and with artwork by Todd Brooks, Rippers and Creepers is a part of Pendu Org’s continued efforts to promote “esoteric ostranenie of contemporary weirdo culture”. This is first in a series that will be released quarterly. Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 2 will come out in June.
Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 featuring HeteroSkeleton,
Blastocyst, Pukers, Oubliette, Ghost Moth, Vestigial Limb, Kristin Calvarese, Buffle, Pink Canoes, Usurper, Harshcore, Fully Dilated, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Fish & Sheep, Valerio Cosi, Howlin' Magic, Pet Coffins, Family Battle Snake, Pax Titania, Skozey Fetisch, Arachnid Arcade, Josh Lay, Mike Shiflet, Craniopagus, Sons of Bronson, Demonologists, Women in Tragedy, Sorc'henn, Eastern Seaboard, VxPxC, Saints, Lanterns, Nonhorse, Gullwing, Panicsville
TALIBAM! - The Excusable Earthling LP
GRYN BRVS - Grail Fruit of Les Prix Chauns CS
GHOST MOTH / FOSSILS - Split CS
ABUSE REPORT - El Diablo Esta En Casa CS
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Getting Rid of the Glue LP
NEXT UP:
GANG WIZARD - Everybody Turned Into A Baby LP
CM - Soledad Miranda b/w Susann Korda CS
then projects from Kristin Calvarese, Brown Bird split with Pink Canoes, Atelecine, Boy+Girl, Dirty Churches, Barkminer, Nonhorse, and a solo album from Daniel Carter....
frenetic musics, headrushers, creepers, burners, rippers, jammers, blissers, wreckers, trippers, bangers, nailbiters, teethgrinders, night terrorsreleasing frenetic musics, headrushers, creepers, burners, rippers, jammers, blissers, wreckers, trippers, bangers, nailbiters, teethgrinders, night terrors.
VIDEOS: Watch PENDU VIDEO on YouTube . Video clips from NFF by Aaron Dilloway, Keiji Haino, Negative Approach, Mouthus+Axolotl, Lambsbread, Hair Police, Incapacitants, and others.
BEFORE DADA... BEFORE PUNK...
there was
THE BOUZINGO!
"The Bouzingo were an anti-bourgeois anarchist collective composed of writers and artists
who lived and worked in Paris in the 1830's. They were notorious
for pranks and rabble rousing,
for loudly playing instruments that they didn't know how to play in the streets,
for drinking wine from human skulls,
and other acts of defiance of good taste and bourgeois civility.
The Bouzingo is the Noisemaker, the Agitator, the Rebel.
The Bouzingo is the Thrill Seeker, the Libertine, the Empiricist.
The Bouzingo is the Lunatic Fringe, the Eccentric, the Outsider.
The Bouzingo is the Primitivist, the Improviser, the Frenetic.
The Bouzingo values Enigma, Chance, the Esoteric, the Irrational.
The Bouzingo ridicules Reason and revels in Absurdity in the search for Absolute Freedom.
The Bouzingo is in a Perpetual State of Protest of Everything Bourgeois.
The Bouzingo despises Hypocrisy and most off all... Mediocrity."
-TODD BROOKS
taken from an upcoming historical biography by Todd Brooks tentatively titled:
Gang of Bouzingo, Origins of the Avant-Garde (1830-1835)
...more info on the BOUZINGO
What comes before and opens doors...
Eclecticism . Eroticism . Adhocracy & Adhocism . Anarchism . Regionalism/Localism . Primitivism . Rhizome Theory . Oppositions and Opposites and Contradiction (OuiNon) . The Third Meaning . The Fourth Way . The Left-Hand Path . Nomadism . The Smaragdine Table . Hermeticism . Mysticism . Jainism . Numerology . Tarot . Sufism . Gnosticism . Alchemy . Pythagoras . Diogenes . Pyrrho . Heraclitus . Giordano Bruno . Emanuel Swedenborg . Franz Mesmer . William Blake . Madame Blavatsky . The Bouzingo . Gérard de Nerval . Isidore Ducasse . Friedrich Nietzsche . Austin Osman Spare . Georges Bataille . Max Stirner . Alfred Jarry & Pataphysics . Die Aktion (magazine) . Cabaret Voltaire of Zürich . Tristan Tzara . Dada . Max Ernst . Emma Goldman . Marcel Duchamp . Kurt Schwitters . Aimé Césaire and the Négritude writers . Witkacy . Bruno Schulz . Gertrude Stein . Mao . Stefan Themerson . Brion Gysin . Isidore Isou & Lettrism . John Cage . Allan Kaprow . George Maciunas . Dick Higgins . Fluxus . International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus & Situationist International . Raoul Vaneigem . Robert Rauschenberg . Sun Ra . Vienna Aktionists . Jean Dubuffet . Amiri Baraka . Mike Kelley . Alejandro Jodorowsky . Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey . CRASS . John Cassavetes . Carolee Schneemann . COUM Transmissions (Cosey & Genesis) . Masami Akita . Come Org (William Bennet) . Pushead . Current 93 (David Tibet) . Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) . Sam McPheeters . Sonic Youth . Mayuko Hino . Neurosis . Fort Thunder . No-Neck Blues Band . Nautical Almanac (Twig Harper, Carly Ptak) . Wolf Eyes (John Olson, Nate Young, Aaron Dilloway) . Free Musics, Free Noise, Free Jazz, Free Sound . the Zetetics, Heretics, Eccentrics, Mystics and Frenetics of the Past Present and Future... onward to 2012.