THE LUX ARTILLERY - UNDERGROUND WOMEN
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THE LUX ARTILLERY: An Arsenal of Exceptional Women A hot new book by Zora Von Burden interviewing a pantheon of female Underground stars in music, media, art, metaphysics, performance, and more. Join us on a journey to "the bleeding edge" of cultural engineering. In her hot new book, San Francisco poet and writer Zora Von Burden profiles women with exceptional lives and exceptional talents through their own words. These women are the light bearers in the darkness, passionately carrying burning torches through the Underground, each for their own message and medium. These women are married to the world, to changing the face of global culture, who we are and how we think about ourselves and society. Artists are the chaotic attractors of the social field. While conventional artists may enjoy great favor, the ‘strange attractors,’ including leading edge and extreme artists have a special role as catalysts in contemporary life. Artists have always drawn others beyond the limits of their ordinary awareness, confronting them with another reality, initiating them into a world of profound meaning without conventional boundaries. The artistic life is a chaotic arc of inspiration upon inspiration, following the Muse. Artists walk what for others is ‘the road not taken (chaos theory's bifurcation or forking of the way)sometimes going "where angels fear to tread." Their charismatic influence pulls others into their orbits, and the small effect of one personality potentially spreads its influence over the world (butterfly effect), sometimes over history. The history of art is one of the richest threads of our cultural heritage. Lux Artillery gives these women their own voice to tell the untold stories of their triumphs and tragedies, their particular brand of pain and unique shamanic means of treating the wound that will not heal. This work spans the spectrum of the arts: performance, surrealism, sound, true crime, science, metaphysics, multimedia, sexual psychology An Arsenal of Exceptional Women Lydia Lunch Kembra Pfahler Iona Miller Cosey Fanni Tutti Aleksandra Mir Anna Banana Rosemary Malign Mama Spell Nina Hagen Kari French Wendy Van Dusen Lisa Petrucci Dame Darcy Gaya Donadio Go Go Giddle Janet Klein Miss Satanica Marina Abramovic Tammy Faye Starlite Hannah Sim Mistress persephone Christine Cegavske Fetus De Milo Litsa Spathi Johanna Went Dawn Kasper Helen Thorington 2GRL2 Group Terence Sellers Gorilla Girls Lucifire Carol Queen The Women of AMF Genitorturers Slymenstra Klara Lux Dorothy Dietrich Tanya Jones Dolores Ashcroft Babara Y Martin Lenora Claire Gloria Brame Chi Chi Valeni Beth B and more... ZORA VON BURDEN Zora is a fixture in the San Francisco underground scene. Her work is available in City Lights Bookstore and she writes for the SF Herald. Upcoming projects are: the scripted DVD of Geoff Cordner, Geoff Cordner himself with Lydia Lunch, Zora Von Burden and three other exemplary guest writers and artists will script this work. It's a collaborative effort documenting his life's work in photography. She will be working on many magazines, as writer and columnist. Her books are available at City Lights and may be ordered through her as well. The first book Across Decades is a book of poetry, prose and short stories about the history of women over the last century in fictional accounts documenting historically significant events, with four to five pieces devoted to each. $10 The second book available is a collaborative work with Patrick Bishop entitled The Hidden Chamber. It is a collection of surrealism and horror/erotica. $15 The third book is a surrealist miniature work called the CF Hotel by Zora G Von Burden and Chelsea Fox. $6 This book is generally found on display in the window or alcove of City Lights. The fourth and newest edition of her work is another surrealist piece entitled The Evening Hybrids which is in conjunction with the title of her website. It is another anthology with Chelsea Fox and Jasin K, among others. $6 ______________________________________________________ Artists magnetically draw the attention of others to their creations, to their vision, into the imagination, into the collective future. We might think of them as the "indicator species" of the social ecology, the evolving cultural landscape. Orbiting far from the norm, they provide a negentropic counter-balance -- an evolutionary burst, social innovation -- to conservative forms and institutions, which tend to ossify leading to stasis and decay. Art changes the way people perceive reality, how they see life and their place in it. These negentropic innovations become embedded in social structure. Realizations, insight, empathy are implicit. They show us windows of prescient emotions and impulses, their unframed works rending the veil of the human unconscious. There are two kinds of freedom: "freedom from" and "freedom to". Once we are free of the shackles of limitation, the burden is on us to exercise that liberty in a creative way, recognizing our own limitations. There is no progress in mere boundary-breaking. We have to have somewhere to go. Purpose must underlie pain, or it is pointless. There is no creative spirit in complete anarchy, yet there is in Chaos. The relationship of control and freedom is very much like that between order and chaos. Science has shown that order emerges from the creative edge of chaos. The creative process is similar in that one must use both reins of constraint and freedom: technical mastery and understanding of the medium and forces at work plus the counterpoint of imaginal freedom can produce something truly unique. Processes that appear to be quite chaotic can actually produce their own optimal boundary conditions. The same is true in art, so rather than endless failed attempts to describe meaningful experience, the true artist can explore beyond limits to produce a flowing fount of fully rendered images that have maturity, clarity, radiance, luminescence -- works that simply shine forth and will not be denied. Similar dynamics apply to the place of the leading edge or extreme artist in society: as shaman, as pathfinder, as seer of the future, as one who dares to go where the timid but voyeuristic would love to peek. When our senses become overwhelmed by rhythm, flux, and color we can enter altered states that open us to new experiences, new ways of thinking, new ways of being, new ways of seeing. This fresh point of view reflects a fundamental psychic shift. - iona , posted 02/03/05 |
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