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Lee Adams

One foot in the flesh of the orgy, one foot in the bones of the grave

About Me

I am a London based artist, curator, producer, DJ (aka Choronzon) & promoter of KAOS


Madonna of the Sacred Bones, pencil drawing courtesy of Laurie Lipton
KAOS website

I have worked across live art, performance, film+video, sculpture and installation since 1988, exhibiting and performing internationally including, the Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Royal Opera House, The ICA, Riverside Studios, The Royal College of Art, 291 Gallery, The Centre of Attention, The Nunnery Gallery, SHUNT Vaults, Museum of the Moving Image, OMSK, Fierce Festival, London International Festival of Theatre, BBC2, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, National Review of Live Art, The International Generative Art Festival, Milan, The Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, Club Underworld, Athens, The Cock NYC, Duckie, Torture Garden, Cinema L'Entrepot, Paris, Espace 29 Bordeaux, Cinema l'Oblo, Lausanne, the NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Inport Video Performance Festival, Talinn, Estonia, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, the ePerformance & Plug-ins Festival, Sydney Australia, Collective Unconscious NYC, One Night Stand, Houston, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, YBCA, San Francisco and the Mix Festival NYC

To see more of my work please visit:
LEE ADAMS website

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Dissident collaborators, visionaries, futile dreamers, 'explorers of the infinite and marvellous things of the inmost mind, that which is before thought ... These of the living hand, the makers of epics, the tellers of tales, fantastic, compelling, beyond belief, of that which is and never was, worshippers of a fair impossible (s)he, tramplers of the slime of the pit, clamberers of the rock of the holy mountains, dreamers of the rose and the dew, of milken hill and vine of immortality, these are they that tell of the true end of pleasure beyond becoming - who seek what is to be'

Music:

techno/noise/baroque/experimental/post-industrial/minimal/ne w wave/dark wave/no wave/electronica
Over the past four and a half years Kaos has thrown underground parties all over London, from the faded opulence of Madame JoJo's to the Dickensian squalor of an underground public toilet, via the neo-gothic splendour of 291 Gallery and the eccentric grunge of The Speaker Palace
We have turned the club into an experimental cinema featuring screenings by Slava Mogutin + Brian Kenny, Black Sun Productions, Channel 83, Suka Off, Barry Hale + Sen Voodoo and staged performances by artists such as Katsura Kan, Ron Athey, David Hoyle, Marisa Carnesky, Othon Mataragas, Empress Stah, Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Lazlo Pearlman, Mouse, Veenus Vortex, Glen Meadmore, Ernesto Tomasini, Dominic Johnson, Ashley Ryder, Synthetic Pleasures, Miss Cunty, Cavalier, Ryan Styles, The Homosexuals, No Bra, Ernesto Sarezale, Kat Vipers, Stav B, Passive Agression, The Little Princess Orchestra, Lady Ace, Hancock & Kelly Live, Sasha Selavie and The London Dirthole Company
For the past three years we have staged monthly events at the legendary and completely unhinged tranny fetish club 'Stunners'. Our resident and guest DJ's, include Dr Mu, HaLo-iS, EJ Doubell, Franko B, Mr Cormac, David TG, Bradley Kaos, Dale Cornish, KvRk, Miss Cunty, Phil Able, K, David Judge, Beamish, Passive Agression, Chicken Realnez, Aktarus, Tatu Vuolteenaho, Jonty Scrufff, Jon Bradley, Hannah Holland, Jon Taylor & Prisce de Cockroach
In addition to Kaos I have made guest appearances, necromancing the turntables at Franko B's Mix Up (GE Club, Gt. Eatern Hotel), Hardon (Crash + Hidden), Kashpoint Radio, (Resonance FM ), Jackie (Turnmills + Fire), Antiworld (Brixton Academy), Act Art (Central Station), Halo-Land (www.pirate-radio.org), Underworld (Athens) and The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Many thanks to Regis Hertrich for the background photo: www.cremaster.org

Movies:

Andrej Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pedro Almodovar, Jack Smith, Jan Svankmajer, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Derek Jarman, John Waters, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Bruce La Bruce, Mathew Barney, Kenneth Anger, Shinya Tsukamoto

Books:

Jean Genet, Yukio Mishima, Comte de Lautremont, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Austin Osman Spare, William Blake, Gaston Bachelard, Denis Cooper, Paul Auster, Gilles Deleuze

My Blog

HOMOCCULT - Screening in San Francisco

Sat, May 17, 7:30 pm.HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA.Satan queers and psychedelic wild boys unite.For extreme tastes, this video art program examines artists and filmmakers dealing withthe occult, magic...
Posted by Lee Adams on Wed, 14 May 2008 04:15:00 PST

Review of 'Monster' by Kate Random-Love in Total Theatre Magazine

As the newly crowned Sun King beatifically strode on towering red platform stilettos out of the darkened room upstairs at the Hayward Gallery, signalling the end of Ron Athey's performance 'Solar Anus...
Posted by Lee Adams on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:03:00 PST

Review of 'Monster' by Dominic Johnson in Western European Stages

The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth.Curated by club-performance impresario Lee Adams, The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth brought an array of performance artists to the Hayward Gallery in ...
Posted by Lee Adams on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:44:00 PST

Revisions of Excess reviewed in Organ Magazine

REVISIONS OF EXCESS  The Pink Flamingo, Birmingham, June 3rd 2007 "The road to excess leads to the place of wisdom for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough" Ron Athey a...
Posted by Lee Adams on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:10:00 PST

The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth DVD available now

The DVD from 'The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth' performance event, reflecting on the dark vision of Georges Bataille, commissioned by The Hayward Gallery and curated by Lee Adams & Ron Athey ...
Posted by Lee Adams on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:52:00 PST