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Strange Factories offers up ‘subscription of experiences’ to fan-funders (Wired UK)

 

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.

Film Fantastique

 

Strange Factories is very much a Film Fantastique.

Film Fantastique is the most wonderful french term for a genre of cinema and literature that overlaps with science fiction, fantasy and horror.

I can explain it no better than Robert Hardy, director of the Wicker Man.

"A Film Fantastique can have almost anything in it, it's based on fact but it can take flights of fantasy which are still rooted to the truth and reality of the story, so that the imagination can roam." - Robert Hardy

 

Highly Recommended: The Affliction

The Affliction is a group show by Faye Winslade, David Underwood (both of The Mourning Press), Eleanor Pearce, Laura Barrett and Rowan Meacock


The Affliction is a collection of work, which marches solemnly through the vaults of human intrigue and rests its head upon the steps of melancholy. It serves as a visual exploration into the dark and foreboding provinces that lay outside the walls of logical thought, and in doing so pays tribute to an age when sorrow became an art.

Within this exhibition, the contributing artists are bound by their penchant for the unknown and the extraordinary, yet are set apart by their highly personal approach to themes that have inflamed creative minds for thousands of years. Death and obsession come to the fore as the prints and drawings of The Affliction work to untangle the complex relationship between beauty and the grotesque. Diabolical scenes are played out among the ruins of classical mythology, while the black petals of Eastern Mysticism unfold. The vital roles of both physical process and visual narrative are evident in the haunting, funereal collection.

In this, a show dedicated to the study of the intangible, five artists describe the indescribable and stand together beneath the banner of contemporary gothic art.

27th May (Private View) - 1st June 2011

The Real World Gallery, 65 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JP

Sponsored by Casillero del Diablo.

 

Above: The Heartbreaking Tale of the Escaping Twins by The Mourning Press.

"I cannot carry us both!" she cried, as she dragged her sister alongside her!

The Providence Experiments

STILL STRUGGLING TO “MAKE IT” AS AN ACTOR, ARTIST, ASTRONAUT, WRITER OR EL PRESIDENTE?
FEELING BLOCKED?
DISILLUSIONED?
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS HAVE ARRIVED.

“Providence is always on the side of the last reserve” Napoleon Bonaparte

WHAT ARE THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS?

The Providence Experiments are a unique series of workshops and events that fuse experimentation, visualisation, ritual, psychological intervention and immersive game. Test subjects will be thrust into bizarre events that offer the willing participant the opportunity to undergo a challenging yet positive artistic transformation.

Over one lunar calendar month, you will receive spontaneous transmissions, puzzles, choices and oddities that may pervade any and every part of your life. Prepare your mind for anything.

This experience will be designed specifically for YOU. Perception of self and reality will constantly be challenged. We will initiate you into in a unique journey where you are the hero or villain in your own story.

The aim of the Providence Experiments is to unleash your subconscious creative potential while offering an amazing, unprecedented experience unlike anything you’ve likely participated in before.

The Providence Experiments will consist of one set session per week in Central London over five weeks, starting Friday 5th November. Specialised directions to each venue will be transmitted 5 days before each session.

Warning: The Providence Experiments will not be confined to the five stated sessions. Active engagement and full participation is vital and absolutely necessary.

WHO CREATES THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS?

YOU and your subconscious will be the true playing ground for the game. However, this experience will be facilitated by FoolishPeople, a group that create immersive occult events using their developed practice Theatre of Manifestation. They will be aided with media and profiling consultation provided by Mythos Media, a team assembled to create modern myths.

HOW DO I SIGN UP?

Prospective applicants must e-mail providence(at)weaponized.net immediately. Do it now: the number of places are extremely limited. If you receive an application form, you are lucky enough to have passed Phase I and are on your way to taking your place within Test Bed One.

DATES

Friday November 5th
Sunday November 14th
Sunday November 21st
Friday November 26th
Sunday December 5th

BOOKING PRICE:

Early booking discount: £150 (£30 per week) Available until 17th October Standard booking: £200 (£40 per week) Available from 18th October

foolishpeople.org
weaponized.net
modernmythology.net

Necrofuturist Episode X – March of the Six Legged Terrans

Tonight at 8pm GMT on Radio Nightbreed on Praysilence.org.

Necrofuturist Transmission, P. Emerson Williams show on Radio Nightbreed debuts on Sirius/XM radio this week! The station will continue to stream free from Pray Silence/The Church of Nightbreed and iTunes, even as you have the added convenience of Sirius radio which you can take with you evrywhere you go.

In this edition I bring you: 

William S. Burroughs – "Dinosaurs" 

siiiii – Castrato (Live) 

Dreamtime – Black Fire 

Scott Walker – Tilt 

Ankst – Pearls Before Swine (Reverb Nation fan exclusive) 

Cockatoo – Stupid Poppy 

SLEEPCHAMBER – Dreamspell 

Lydia Lunch - "What it is" 

Judgehydrogen – Silent Crypt 

KASMs – Mackerel Sky 

S.C.U.M – Second Sea 

Niceville – Christ in a Vessel

Necrofuturist Archives are on Alterati.com

P. Emerson Williams is a Great Prince of Hell, commands twenty-six legions of demons (twenty-five according to other authors), and teaches astronomy and the knowledge of poisonous plants, herbs and precious stones. He is also known as Fluffy and Mimzy. He is depicted as either being a crowned owl with long legs, a raven, or a man. Or a scary monster. Expose yourself to the Necrofuturist Transmission at your own risk, for the legions of Fluffy Necrofuturists will burrow in the minds of those of weak moral fibre and infect their souls with that infernal (yet informal) darkness.

In his last years, Williams dwelt in Damask silk, where the Gothronomicon (O Az-If) was written. In art, in the Dictionnaire Infernal, P. Emerson Williams is depicted as a nude man with dragon-like wings, hands and feet, a second pair of feathered wings after the main, wearing a crown, holding a serpent in one hand, and riding a wolf or dog.

In this show:

Willow Wisp – The Oldest Joke in the Book
Experiment Haywire – Occult Casualty (Ball Mix)
SLEEPCHAMBER – Ultraviolence
Nightporter – The Monster
Bob Avakian – Ex Corpus
Weep – Shut Up and Drive
Requiem In White – Acanthus
Experiment Haywire – Dark Discordia
Lady Parasyte – Playing Parasite
Sleep Chamber – Unreleased track from the forthcoming expanded rerelease of Satanic Sanction

Listen to or download show @alterati.com

'The Abattoir Pages'- Third wave of artists announced

I'm very proud to announce the third wave of talented artists who are collaborating with FoolishPeople and Guerrilla Zoo on 'The Abattoir Pages':

Lorraine Clarke

Jules Newman

Kara Rae Garland

Dijon Hierlehey

Join us tonight for the premiere of 'The Abattoir Pages'- the 7.30pm entrance is sold out but we have a few tickets still available for the 8.30pm & 9.30pm entrance. If you would like to reserve, please call: 07597576075.

Buy tickets now for other performance dates

'The Abattoir Pages'- First wave of artists announced

We are proud to announce our first confirmed collaborators for 'The Abattoir Pages'. We're looking forward to working with such a talented group of artists and writers- I would recommend delving further into their work via their websites. 

Jenny Reina & Bryony Henderson- The Hunter Gatherers 
www.hunter-gatherers.co.uk

Emily Dezurick-Badran - Artist
www.dezurickbadran.com

Christina Williams - Artist
www.christinawilliams.co.uk

Lucinda Butcher aka LuLu Create - Artist
www.lulucreate.com

Iain Sommerville - Artist

Richard Webb - Artist
www.rawebb.com

Wes Unruh -Writer & Artist
www.wesunruh.info

P. Emerson Williams - Sound designer & Artist
www.veilofthorns.com

Samm Hain - Writer & Artist
www.flowerofkairos.com

The second wave of artists collaborating on 'The Abattoir Pages' will be announced soon.

Mythos Media join 'The Abattoir Pages' as sponsors

James Curcio has officially joined the core creative team of 'The Abattoir Pages', with Mythos Media now active sponsors.

James Curcio is a multi-media artist, writer, and theorist, who has spent most of his adult life exploring modern myths through media. This exploration has taken the form of collaborative novels, essays, Internet "round-table" musical albums, podcasts, live performances, and installations. These works commonly deal with controversial themes such as psycho-sexuality, the occult, and the exploration of consciousness. He is the Creative Director of Mythos Media alongside FP's P. Emerson Williams. Mythos Media are an arts collective formed to produce and present projects such as these to the public, and Synchronicity Studios, a freelance consulting and production house for client-work. James will sleep when he is dead!

www.jamescurcio.net

If you haven't checked them out already, we highly recommend a visit to: www.mythosmedia.net

The Abattoir Pages - Tickets Now On Sale

Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, an immersive Halloween event, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London's largest abattoirs. 

The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. 

This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story 'The Forest'. 

The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. 

Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.

Buy Tickets Online

Concept Horror Launch - Featuring Patricide