The Lab (Venue Partner)
2948 16th St
415.864.8855
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Sudden Infant
- When
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Sunday Jan 31, 2010 (8:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: One half block east of 16th St Mission BART
- Price
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$8 - 15 sliding scale
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“Big men don't cry, but when performing as Sudden Infant, Joke Lanz is likely to do a whole lot worse. Inspired by Dada, early action art, and such power electronics acts as Whitehouse, since 1989 Lanz has used Sudden Infant as a laboratory to explore the limits of infantile regression through sound, often exhausting himself physically — and confounding his audience — in the process. No artsy-fartsy piss-take on the primal scream, Sudden Infant's barrage of gutteral grunts, howls, and pre-linguistic babbling takes no prisoners. You'll laugh; you'll cry.”
Matt Sussman, Flavorpill
Sudden Infant is Joke Lanz’s longest-running project. Its inception in 1989 was borne out of Lanz’s urgent drive to combine sound art and performance into one visceral whole – by doing so, his performances frequently bring forth elements and influences from Dada, actionism, Fluxus, noise and punk, as well as some of industrial music’s most trenchant performers.
A Sudden Infant performance will typically be anchored by two main characteristics: the use of minimal electronic equipment on one side, on the other a strong focus on the human body, its reduced essence and the sound worlds it contains and spews forth.
This performance is presented in conjunction with 23five Incorporated and Swissnex San Francisco.
Special guests Horaflora, R. Jencks, and Tralphaz join Sudden Infant for this evening.
