Today the Guilds artefACTS are unveiled.
Kilto Take
http://www.kiltotake.com
Three musical catalysts collide by chance, like some audio-laboratory experiment gone wrong. After the smoke has cleared, what's left is a volatile compound of commanding guitars and regimented percussion.
Sally Rushbrook
Divine Jazz and blues infused with a deep fascination with poetry and storytelling.
Guignol's Band
Blackly humorous songs about death cults and decline for electric guitar and soprano saxophone, members of The Devil May Cares, the Young Lovers, various improv groups, et cetera.
STRANGE FACTORIES
Exclusive expedition featurette and Society of Vandals footage and immersive research presentation.
The unveiling of the Strange Factories debut trailer. A thank you to the supporters of FoolishPeople for helping us to successfully fund the 'Strange Factories' expedition.
A few tickets remain to this unique 'Strange Factories' event, you can purchase entry for two people into the Society of Vandals guild by purchasing Waystation I via the Weaponized online store.
This will also give you access to exclusive content and future special events, alongside access to the 'Strange Factories' Radiograms. The online transmedia narrative which supports the 2012 release of FoolishPeople's first feature film 'Strange Factories'.
The second STRANGE FACTORIES - Secrets, Dreams & Storytelling Tweetathon starts tonight at 6pm Friday 15th of July.
We have some very special surprises planned for you over the course of this weekends spectral broadcasts.
The core members of the 'Strange Factories' Film Fantastique, will be hosting the tweetathon. The times below are when you'll find the conduits at the control box, tuning us to the strange frequencies, filled with the secrets and dreams from our lives that only ghosts are privy.
Be warned we cannot take responsibility for parafictive phenomena you encounter while connected to our current. Localised spectral manifestations may occur for 48 hours starting at 6 o'clock British Summer Time (GMT+1).
The winner of Stronheim's tombola will be announced in the next 48 hours.
John Harrigan - Cartographer of the anomalous. Has built many imaginary machines. On first name basis with all the cats that live in his village.
Lucy Harrigan - Producer, performer, editor & control freak. Escaped from conventional reality to the FP Cirxus. Many characters live inside me.
Tereza Kamenicka - Was born on the haunted hour - dreams more real that reality itself - finding reason within insanity - smile on the lips - secret in the heart.
Bettina Fung Wan Shan - Possessor of the humanoid camera, capturing images of the sensed and imagined with help from ink and water.
Claire Tregellas - I've got webbed feet, I remember being six months old, I saw a white fox recently and I know a woman who was turned into a rabbit.
Rachael Blyth - I'm descended from the last gypsy king of Scotland. In the past my ancestors burned at the stake. I always consider myself blessed to be haunted rather than hunted.
Richard Webb - Artist and conjuror of objects and experiences. Current likes: expanded polystyrene, lead, LED, perspex, iron, aluminium and gunpowder.
P. Emerson Williams - Infected the system for your souls, is in control of your dreams and saved art by using his greedy maw for a canned laugh-track.
Yiannis Katsaris - The photographer who left the bright colours of greece to reside among the gloomy colours of England.
Xandu Xero - Honky Bizango. Convivial crone. Beverly Hills JAP cum Space Oddity. I see what you don't and won't - it's a curse.
Friday
18:00 – 22:00 – Bettina Fung Wan Shan
Friday-Saturday
22:00 – 02:00 – John Harrigan
Saturday
02:00 – 06:00 – Richard Webb
06:00 – 08:00 – Tereza Kamenicka
08:00 – 10:00 – Rachael Blyth
10:00 – 12:00 – Bettina Fung Wan Shan
12:00 – 15:00 – Tereza Kamenicka
15:00 - 19:00 - Claire Tregellas
19:00 - 22:00 - Xanadu Xero
Saturday-Sunday
22:00 – 02:00 – Lucy Harrigan
Sunday
02:00 – 06:00 – Richard Webb
06:00 – 10:00 – Rachael Blyth
10:00 – 14:00 – Yiannis Katsaris
14:00 – 18:00 – Lucy Harrigan
The interview I did with Wired UK on the background and methodology to FoolishPeople's first film project is now online.
"I think this way of working with your audience puts the ownership of the experience of the story back in the rightful hands of the people who love and support your work. Working this way means we can remain 100 percent committed to the unique nature of the project."
Those who contribute will be rewarded with a "subscription of experiences" -- packs of clues, DVDs and tickets which will be sent out to contributors prior to the Strange Factories tour next year. Games are also a major influence on Strange Factories -- Harrigan says fans are "able to get special experiences, in the same way that someone who orders a copy of a game such as Arkham City early would be rewarded access to special characters, skins and maps." Similarly, the immersive storytelling Strange Factories recreates has been created with a modern gaming audience in mind, allowing them the same autonomy over the plot as found in games LA Noire and Portal.
Thank you to Alice Vincent and everyone at Wired UK.
Stronheim launches our groundbreaking new 'Strange Factories' Dreamer & Storyteller competition.
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
Stronheim, inspired by the signals recieved to FoolishPeople's immersive film fantastique 'Strange Factories' has challenged you to share the strange fragments of your own stories and dreams.
To enter Stronheim's Tombola make a minimum contribution for 60p - $1 at the village fete, (which you can access on our IndieGoGo page) and send your story and dream fragments to us via e-mail to switchboard (at) strangefactories.com. Your dreams and story fragments will be entered into a competition to win a weekend away for you and a guest at Stronheim's mansion in the beautiful Czech countryside. This is the actual haunted location, where Stronheim's Strange Factories, infamous for the frequencies of sound they emit are hidden deep in the local countryside.
Dreams and story fragments can be up to 560 characters, the size of four tweets. These dreams and stories will also form part of an installation at the phatasmagoric 'Strange Factories' tour, where your name will be recorded in the village register.
The winning dreamer and storyteller will be announced live at the finale of the second 'Strange Factories' 48-hour Tweetathons that will take place from 6pm to 6pm on the 24th - 26th of June and 6pm to 6pm on the 15th - 17th of July.
During the 'Strange Factories' Tweetathon, members of FoolishPeople will be sharing their own strange dreams live along with stories from FoolishPeople's colourful history along with a selection of the dreams and stories you have sent to us.
Take Stronheim's challenge and enter his Tombola NOW!
Join the 'Strange Factories' Facebook page to keep up to date with Stronheims Tombola - The 'Strange Factories' Dreamer & Storyteller Competition.
No purchase necessary to enter competition.
Fugueorgaphy channeled and created by artist & Core FP member Bettina Fung, enabling transference of image sent to us by Stronheim.
"Humans literally told themselves into existence. We are constructed from a million narratives that have accompanied us across time, exhaled and etched on every conceivable surface, so that even in the darkest times we would never forget who we are. What we call reality and every element in it is constructed from stories and myth. The surface of fiction is present everywhere. What is physics if not a beautiful story, told in an intricate language of symbols and meaning that we’re still very much engaged in the act of telling, as we travel far deeper to the heart of its truth."
Excerpt from Storyteller - On the Writing of Strange Factories by John Harrigan, from an original article for the awakeningartsnetwork.
Society of Vandals - £30 / $50
Milestone III: "Welcome to Kitezh." As you meet and negotiate with Arlec at the Society of Vandals' camp, he'll give you a pair of tickets to the live event screening the film and a DVD copy of the collector's edition of 'Strange Factories'.
If you venture to Milestone III, you will be able to watch the film in an atmospheric setting that immerses you in the weird world of 'Strange Factories', whilst you witness the manifestation of the creatures and characters as they come to life around you. We have left a space for you to interact with the film and venture into a wonderland to become part of our story.
Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as "the hum". Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine. It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders. But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their wits end, have called in the council to investigate. The 300-strong population is the latest around the world to be hit by the rumble which has in the past led to wild conspiracy theories blaming it on UFOs, government experiments, abandoned mine shafts and Strange hidden factories owned by someone known only as Stronheim.
A writer, possessed by a terrifying fiction hunts for the heart of his story in a pagan landscape, haunted by the infamous hum emitted by a Strange Factory.
Strange Factories is the first feature film produced by FoolishPeople.
Enter the Theatre and start your journey...
1957- Seascale, the North of England. Cirxus; an old English circus lost in the shadows of the smoke stacks of Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station.
Athalia the ballerina waits in the ring for Loudon the clown to return with directions to the Black Pool, the mythic site of the Home Sweet Home, the final show of the season. Join her as she begins a bizarre and wondrous search for Loudon through the irradiated secrets of Cirxus, where she must face the macabre atomic menagerie, haunted by circus animals and navigate her way through the maze of strange, hallucinogenic sideshows to the other side of time.
Cirxus defies genre and form and offers a literary experience like no other. A combination of hallucinogenic novel and blueprint to a physical experience.
A rowdy gang of Tracey Emins wrestle half a dozen dazed Andy Warhols to the ground. IT IS THE FUTURE AND ALL FORMS OF ART ARE FREE. Perfect replicas exist of every masterpiece ever created, artworks and ideas are stolen from the mind before they’re even created.
Copyright or ownership is meaningless. FLESH-WORTH is all that matters. Arm yourself with weaponised art and explore the notions of open-source myth. What are intellectual rights worth in a decomposing culture?
Featuring full archival material from FoolishPeople’s performance run of Dead Language at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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