i thought we would contribute this to your installation, we actually wrote it for die zeit (magazine) in germany, this is a leading newspaper here. anyway the head editor regected it, we were thrown out at the last minute, even though the writers were desperately trying to keep us in. so freedom of speech isn´t so easy these days, but maybe at your space and just for knowledge the theme was "schntt" all these fashion people were being invited to deal with this theme, maybe translatedas "the pattern"
" HOW TO SPEND IT ?...DON´T ! "
by chicKs on speed (with a capital k)
Yes the gigs on, no the gigs been cancelled, but you have to leave for new york in 2 days, but the wars started and people need culture, especially at a time like this. The equipment going through ex-ray machines looks like bombs, and people in strange military outfits, with disinterested expressions, or overly important ones, fondle the sherman filter bank or sampler for a short moment, then let us go through. It was like in Israel, when each piece of our equipment set off the alarm and everyone was rushed outside the building till the coast was clear and soon after everything seemed temporarily normal again. In Israel we met pil and galia at the habamah theatre, they expressed their social stance to their society in the way they dressed, it was very fashionable, but not fashion you can buy!.............. they live it, we don´t! (but now they escaped to london)
On the way to the airport the taxi driver passed the motionless body of a girl the middle of the road, driving slowly, of course so that he could get a good look, she was wearing wool tights, and the neck brace that the paramedics were putting on her, reminding us of the fragile bodies that we walk around in, are these clothes protection or decoration? High fashion, the status symbol of a woman is not her boyfriend but her handbag.
Why were the women jumping out of the twin towers building with their hand bags in their hands, is it so hard for us to leave behind ourpersonal possessions? And why were these pictures available to see on the new york times web site, just 3 days after the disaster? tom ford: the only way he could bring himself to do his new collection was by auctioning a limited edition of 50 handbags off with the proceeds going to the families of the victims of the twin towers disaster. Two months ago kodwo eschun did an interview with us for vogue uk, concerning bands who make fashion, the questions were excellent! we have never been interviewed with such in depth thought provoking questions. We just received the article a week ago and all we saw was one quote on how we like to drink strawberry milkshakes. Our web master responded to vogues harsh editing tactics in this way: "Media are like thieving magpies crazy after the latest glamorous, glittering thing with an attention span of five seconds (Warhol's fifteen minutes is old-fashionably long already ;), and nothing is worse than being passe, last season's fashion, has-been. It's amazing how they have created an art form out of superficiality, rapidly passing images and impressions, where nothing else matters than your digitally manipulated face and being uber-cool. They are not interested in any sort of deeper insight, and the talk about such awfully boring things as historical backgrounds or connections or alternative points of view is totally out of the question. Anyway, who the fuck reads books any more?" (by errki ratio otherwise known as phinn milk)
Friday afternoon...munich, marienplatz, ha and m, bought 3 matching suits, Friday evening train to Vienna, saturday night show at flex, Sunday, interview still looking fresh, monday back to munich and back to where we got those suits, smiling all the way home with our cash back in our wallets. Such perfect consumerism, isn´t it tempting, its so cheap it should be illegal. what is so evil about luxury goods? Why are they so expensive that not everybody can afford them? Keep things elitist......"fashion is for fashion people" a thought before the lights turn off at night,when the wage of the production of goods is based on the worker beingable to afford what they are producing, naturally everyone will makemore expensive goods, the whole world will be filled with greatthings that everyone can afford.