Here is the upcoming programme for the Fierce INTERROBANG 2: Relationships taking place from Friday 24 September to Sunday 26 September – we hope you can join us!
To download a pdf click here.
During the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this yer Fierce had a page feature in the inaugural Forest Fringe Zine. Dirty Cash!!! was a competition we ran as part of the Forest Fringe programme where we invited the public to send in the the filthiest suggestions of how to spend £250 – an expansion of the idea that there is no such thing as clean money.
Celebrity filth judges Laura Solon and Richard Dedomenici helped us sort the filth from the chaff and deem one idea the worthiest (filthiest) recipient of the cash.
The entries ranged from pure sleaze and sexual deviancy to more political statements on corruption.
The top three were:
1) Jasmine Loveys (below) – winner
2) Andrzej Lukowski – ‘Autopeodophilia’ – a study on the ethics of child pornography – what happens if you masturbate over a picture of yourself as a child?
3) Lucy Ellinson – ‘Anti-filth’ – finding the filthiest, grimiest unperpasses and spaces in a city and writing ‘reverse graffittti’ statements about the ConDem coalition government in bleach and industrial cleaning products.
So the winner is…
So. . . here is the filthy way that I would spend 250 big ones:
Jasmine’s dirty day. . .
11.30am
I would begin with a bit of light cosmetic surgery and have a hair transplant on my face. Specifically, I would have hair transplanted just above the mouth to form a moustache. I would like it to be quite a bushy one but money doesn’t go far. I visit a back- street transplantists and pay £200 for a thin moustache.3pm
Armed with new facial hair, it’s time for a little jog and the tache reveal. Having purchased a pair of tiny, shiny red shorts from a charity shop for the bargain price of £2.50, I take all my clothes off, apart from the shorts, and run.5pm
Very sweaty from the jogathon, I pop in to the local co-op for a tin of UHT squirty cream. Pay £2 to the cashier and leave.5.10pm
Having left the co-op, I stop to slather my sweaty torso in cream, paying particular attention to the nipples. I am thinking how much the girls will love this.6pm
It’s never to early for a titty bar so I head to ‘wild catz’ for a little of the action. I order a reef and watch the girls on the pole, seductively fingering the cream from my chest into my mouth.Midnight
Somehow hours have passed and I’m still at the titty bar. By now the cream has really festered and something is smelling pretty funky. I head home.1am
I find some cold chips in the kitchen from the night before. I eat them before climbing into my new leopard print sheets (£12 from debenhams).What a marvelous day!
Quarantine, in partnership with Fierce are looking for participants for:
The slightest movement: A project about the problem with tolerance
20 – 25 September 2010, West Bromwich
Some people go out into the world. Their task is to go somewhere that they have never been, meet someone who they don’t know and invite them back to an event that has been constructed in their absence.
The task is repeated every day for a week. Each day the event is re-invented according to what happened the day before. A small group grows into a large one, gathering more and more strangers into a temporary – perhaps uneasy – community.
The slightest movement is a simple yet direct project that asks questions about tolerance and ‘otherness’.
Over the course of a week at the end of September, Quarantine will gather together a group of strangers and, through a daily series of varied tasks, events and difficult conversations, create a temporary community that openly debates difference.
Led by Quarantine’s Artistic Director Richard Gregory and designer Simon Banham, we want to invite a core group of 15 people to participate in The slightest movement.
We would like to work with a group that is diverse in every sense – culturally, socially and creatively as well as in levels of experience of involvement in art-based projects. We’re going to try to find a spread of people from West Bromwich itself, some from the West Midlands and some from anywhere else. This is a voluntary project, though we may be able to help with travel and living expenses – more details available on application.
How to get involved….
The slightest movement is open to all, artists and non-artists, irrespective of background or experience. There are only 15 places available. To apply please complete and return the application form available for download from www.qtine.com. Closing date for applications is 3rd September 2010.
There’s no such thing as clean money.
Help Fierce Festival discover the filthiest way to spend 250 quid.
For the full page click here!
Send your ideas to dirtycash{at}wearefierce.org
Best filth gets the cash to spend (on filth)
The winner will be selected by a specialist panel of celebrity filth experts and announced at a sleazy ceremony at:
Forest Fringe, Bristo Place, Edinburgh at 11.59pm on Saturday 21st August 2010.
Fierce’s Dirty Cash!!! is Fierce’s contribution to the inaugural Forest Fringe Zine. Our page features alongside contributions from a number of artists including Tim Etchells, Action Hero, Third Angel and Ant Hampton. For more information about Forest Fringe please visit www.forestfringe.co.uk
First Email - the original inspiration for the project
Here is a copy of the email which inspired our First Email project, which was kindly shared with us by Kristin Fredricksson (http://kristinfredricksson.mfbiz.com/), Karl’s daughter. As we mentioned below, this email formed part of Kristin’s beautiful, moving show Everything Must Go.
We love Karl’s email. For us it has the quality of a typographic artwork – a distinctive style: completely without punctuation, spaces or capital letters. It’s extremely evocative – it tells you a lot about this man, where he was at in 1999 (an early adopter!) and the things that are at the forefront of his mind ‘willsendyoubirthdayyoubirthdaymessage’ are repeated as he processes them and writes to his daughter.
