
Bad Alchemy Magazine
#59/08
Rigo Dittmann
MARTIN BLADH
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Beim Versuch, mir ein Bild zu machen, stieß ich auf Bladhs Werkstudien zu Francis Bacon, Heliogabalus und Gilles de Rais, mit denen er Performances von Bo Cavefors‘ Teater Dekadens visualisierte (eingefangen auf M. Bladh & Bo I Cavefors Three

Der dritte Teil besteht in hellerem Sirrklang und wieder silbrigem Geriesel, Cavefors liest nun, wieder paradox nüchtern und unpathetisch, ‚Revolt in the Kasbah‘, einen Text, der die Parias und ‚Wild Boys‘ aller Länder zu Orgie und Exzess unter der Schwarzen Fahne und dem Banner de Sades aufruft und dazu, der Gesellschaft den Rücken zu kehren. Danach schwillt der Noise an zu einem finalen Elektronensturm, durchschrillt von wild gewordenen Dudelsäcken und hyperventilierenden Furien.
Es war an der Zeit, mit dem Künstler selber Kontakt aufzunehmen und einige Aspekte des Faszinosums zu beleuchten. Martin Bladh hat auf meine Fragen am 30.6.2008 geantwortet.
BA: Your work is a unity of sound, lyrics, vision & body (Vienna Actionism, Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries). Are You seeking for a synthesis of art & life, or how are Your talents and passions related?
MB: To me it is absolutely necessary that art and life frequently overlap each other. If you’re passionate about something you carry it with you 24 hours a day. I think it’s very important for artists to dare to be pretentious; you can’t make art as a hobby or a nine to five work. Then I wouldn’t go that far as to state, like several silly Fluxus-artists have done, that drinking a cup of coffee or blow air into a balloon is art and thereby important. It’s always a hard and exhaustive struggle for an artist to look for and settle on his chosen medium. Only because you’re a good draughtsman doesn’t necessary make you a good artist. Music was my first artistic outlet, but after a couple of years it seemed futile for several of the ideas I nurtured. I then turned to painting, writing, performance etc. and still I haven’t been able to restrict myself to one media. So, yes I’m interested in a work that spans over several different mediums and thereby works as a synthesis on different levels and senses. I guess Wagner and Nitsch have helped me to legitimise this whole idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. This way of working is very important to me, and has helped me enormously when I’ve tried to pin down my obsessions and special interests.
u.s.w. HIER!
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Bad Alchemy Magazine
#59/08
Hmmm Dämon - Bidner & Martinek, Meese & Feuerstein (Dämonologische und ludologische Überlegungen); Martin Bladhs Theater der Grausamkeit; Joyful Noise - Taktlos 2008 (von GZ); 25 Jahre 'Musique Action' (von Bernd Weber); Party Intellectuals - Ceramic Dog live; A Potent Brew - Sean Noonan's Brewed By Noon; If You Like Armaggedon - Evangelista (von M. Beck); Veins to the Sky - Alexander Tucker; The Spectres of lost Possibilities - Hauntologische Splitter; Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2008 (von R. Gmöhling); Das Pop-Analphabet von Allroh bis Z'ev [nur für Abonnenten: Artwork von MARTIN BLADH]
Bad Alchemy erscheint ca. 2–3 mal jährlich.
Herausgeber: Rigo Dittmann
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