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Weaponized Episode 12 – Y

Civilisation has fallen. In the rubble, we at the Y Corporation have developed the ultimate solution to save society: the Y Show. We encourage all good citizens to sign up for the show. You will be housed within a wonderful Haze Treatment Facility and undergo unique psychological treatment, which will clear away the illness of individuality. This reprogramming will be broadcast to the eyes and ears of citizens in our New World, populated with previous contestants and patients. This is a reality show unlike any other! There is a secret that haunts Haze01, the original treatment facility. Two patients, locked deep within its walls, contain archetypes that reject all reprogramming. They channel portents and omens of another future, a world where myth and divinity remake reality, manifesting a planet fit for Gods. In this season of the Y show, the doctors of the facility make their final attempt to process these two patients, before they break free and unleash total anarchy. Tune in.

Weaponized is proud to announce the publication of Citizen Y by John Harrigan and James Curcio. More than a script, Citizen Y is a blueprint of a ritual experience. It is a demonstration of how you can create an immersive, transformative experience for an audience that goes beyond passive entertainment. Parodying our fixation on spoon-fed media, it transports the reader into a post-apocalyptic reality show where the grand prize is the future itself.
Citizen Y fuses characters from James Curcio’s Fallen Nation books and John Harrigan’s GraveLand myth into a unique hybrid narrative. Both writers have decades of experience producing mythic, occult experiences that transcend the boundaries of media, audience and stage. The book also stands as an example of modern myth as discussed in The Immanence of Myth Anthology.

This release by Weaponized includes concept artwork by James Curcio, Daniele Serra, and P. Emerson Williams. Edited by Lucy Harrigan, it will be published by Weaponized and available in print through major retailers and in eBook format from April 2011.

Citizen Y is available to pre-order from today.

Cast:

P. Emerson Williams

James Curcio

William Clark

Music and SFX in this episode provided by P. Emerson Williams and James Curcio.

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Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Allin and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From monologues to full on audio theatre.

FoolishPeople have produced work in prestigious cultural venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Arcola Theatre and the Horse Hospital, historical buildings like the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham, internationally to America and Amsterdam and worked for clients such as the BBC. The FoolishPeople core collective features artists from England, Czech Republic, Sweden & America, and they also collaborate with many artists worldwide who specialise in a broad range of media.

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Weaponized Episode 11 – The Sparky Show

METAPHYSICS AND MECHANICS IN THE NUDE, WITH SEX AND DRUGS!

 

The Sparky Show read by author Xanadu Xero in an exploding dossier of words and photography of a doomed and perfect relationship, retrofitted with psilocybin. A report from the trenches of love post culture, mid-life, reminiscent in its gonzo style and ‘take no prisoners’ attitude to Hunter S. Thompson. Not your average empty-nest Beverly Hills Mom.

Published By WEAPONIZED

Soundtrack by Choronzon

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Allin and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From monologues to full on audio theatre.

FoolishPeople have produced work in prestigious cultural venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Arcola Theatre and the Horse Hospital, historical buildings like the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham, internationally to America and Amsterdam and worked for clients such as the BBC. The FoolishPeople core collective features artists from England, Czech Republic, Sweden & America, and they also collaborate with many artists worldwide who specialise in a broad range of media.

Listen to or download show @alterati.com

FoolishPeople present Weaponized 10 - Special Edition - 'Recordings from 'Ward 12 - The Basement'

'The Basement - Ward12' was created in partnership with Secret Cinema for the November 2010 presentation of Milos Forman's ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’.

Ward 12 explored the background and history of author Ken Kesey’s participation in CIA MKULTRA Mind Control experiments conducted at Stanford University on the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and how this in turn may have been an influence on the book and film's themes of rebellion against society.

Ken Kesey’s reported voluntary participation in the MKULTRA program 1959, his subsequent experimentation with drugs and his work as a night orderly at an asylum provided his inspiration to write 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. These first steps led to his taking an active role in the sixties counter culture movement with the aim to instigate an alternative world view. Ken Kesey became one of the main proponents of sixties drug culture and the hippie movement.

Participants who entered Ward 12 at Secret Cinema were encouraged to take an active role in learning the truth of their own insanity. Were they part of a mythic MKULTRA test, or had they joined a family of patients who had fallen through the cracks of the system seeking escape via the basement beneath the Oregon State Hospital?

FoolishPeople’s 'The Basement' responded in real time to the expectations of the audience who were seeking to break the system. Unexpectedly, they found themselves in a world inhabited by archetypes and characters who may or may not be figments of the imagination. Or was it a psychoactive side effect and symptom caused by long term treatment with a cocktail of powerful antipsychotic medications?

Listen to or download this special edition of the Weaponized Podcast @ Alterati.com.

The Basement - Ward 12
Written by John Harrigan and Xanadu Xero
Directed by John Harrigan
Produced by Lucy Harrigan
‘MKUltra’ video art by P. Emerson Williams, written by John Harrigan

Cast
Archie – David Monard
Doctor Armstrong – P. Emerson Williams
Doctor Tollhaus – Tereza Kamenicka
Elijah – John Harrigan
Ellie – Laura Gallacher
Lucinda C – Lucy Harrigan
Mary – Josephine Arden
MK12 Orderlies – Michael Christofis, Eleanor Young & Alexa Mathews
Nurse Always – Xanadu Xero
Nurse Cestoni – Laura Wolfe
Nurse Phillips – Cathy Conneff
Tessa – Kirsty Hudson

With special thanks to Secret Cinema, the London Film Museum and Space Engineering.

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Weaponized Episode 9: You'll Never Walk Alone

A meditation on the idea and elusive reality of the “other”. What does more damage? Contact with others or lack of human contact? Those memories may be accurate, observations keen or you may have created the approaching monster in your mind.

Cast:

John Harrigan

Lucy Harrigan

P. Emerson Williams

Music and Soundscape by P. Emerson Williams

Providence Experiments music by James Curcio and P. Emerson Williams

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Allin and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From monologues to full on audio theatre.

FoolishPeople have produced work in prestigious cultural venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Arcola Theatre and the Horse Hospital, historical buildings like the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham, internationally to America and Amsterdam and worked for clients such as the BBC. The FoolishPeople core collective features artists from England, Czech Republic, Sweden & America, and they also collaborate with many artists worldwide who specialise in a broad range of media.

On the 14th November, FoolishPeople will host an evening in celebration of the official launch of the Weaponized Imprint and publication of The Sparky Show at The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London.

In addition FoolishPeople will be performing in London throughout November. You just need to find us…

Listen to or download show @ Alterati.com

 

Weaponized Episode 8: FORUM

In this episode FoolishPeople bring us a dramatization of Forum by Richard Webb which presents a spectral image of our culture and collective psyche via the reflective portal of an internet football forum.

Documenting the exchanges between visitors of the site in 2002, this chronological record of a publicly anonymous debate on a sports website explores ideas of moral panic, vigilantism, moral projection and vendetta.

Webb’s objective role in simply compiling and re-presenting the correspondence instigates debate on the value and status of ideas one may not agree with, whilst serving to mirror cultural discourse surrounding emotive subjects.

Cast:

John Harrigan -Rage

Lucy Harrigan - Ms. Dynamite

P. Emerson Williams -Athers, Booty, IWM, 4737 CARLING SIR, Murno, Nestonblue, Officer_Dibble, Ourkid, ParrotClete, Red_Army, Seagull, Silverback, Swansea Til I Die, theodorewhitmore

Chants - Fans of Manchester United

Music - Glory Glory Man United (Zombie Chant Mix) by ▼ΞıĿ ◄▼ ł‡orns

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Weaponized Episode 7: Control

Everything is under control, locked in, calcified, terrorformed. We’re from the Corporation. We’re here to help you. Sonic terrain and music provided by Choronzon.

Featuring extracts from FoolishPeople's performance of Weaponized Art: 4.0 Cicatrix at Space Engineering's Independence exhibition alongside accompanment from musical genius Georgi Georgiev on Sitar.

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Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Harrigan and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From abstract soundscapes to monologues to full on audio.

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Weaponized Episode 6: At Storytails

On 30th May 2010, John Harrigan made an appearance at Storytails, at the Pangea Project in Stoke Newington. Extracts from his works “Dead Language”, “The Book of Hate” & “Cirxus” were read, and are presented in this episode with sonic manipulations created from the recordings.

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Harrigan and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From abstract soundscapes to monologues to full on audio theatre.

Listen to or download show @alterati

Weaponized Episode 5: Music for the World’s Dying Light

The rusty gears click and grind as time winds down. The forest dissolves around you as the rain burns your skin. The ground beneath heaves a sigh and buckles like a collapsing bridge. The city below glows brighter as silence falls. All you can think of is how beautiful this transformation is.

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Harrigan and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From abstract soundscapes to monologues to full on audio theatre.

Listen to or download show @Alterati

Cassette Culture Episode Four

And They created TheeBradMiller for Their messenger, and They clothed Him with Chaos that His form might be ever hidden amidst the stars.

Who shall know the mystery of The Cassette Culture Podcast? for It is the mask and will of Those that were when time was not. TheeBradMiller is the priest of the Ether, the Dweller in Air and hath many faces that none shall recall.

The waves freeze before Him; Gods dread His call. In men's dreams He whispers, yet who knoweth His form?

Cassette Culture Radio Show – Armed with the complete Inner-X-Musick cassette catalog… your host, the lovely, talented and nude TheeBradMiller brings you musick from the cassettes! Every month a new show will be featured focusing on a different aspect of Inner-X-Musick cassettes and the infamous cassette culture.

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Weaponized Episode 4: Music of the Earth

 

To mark the release of the The Abattoir Pages and A Red Threatening Sky original scores unveiled on Beltane this year, FoolishPeople and core FoolishPeople member and composer P. Emerson Williams bring you the first of a two part musical edition of Weaponized. What you will hear in this episode is comprised of soundscapes and musical compositions from Cirxus, The Abattoir Pages and A Red Threatening Sky, remixed without mercy to give a sonic picture of places these productions explored. 

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Harrigan and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From abstract soundscapes to monologues to full on audio theatre. 

Listen to or download show @Alterati.com