blethers

blethers if you want them. click any show title to get an impression of its visuals w/ miniscule clip of the soundtrack if you’re lucky. here be a fraction of spotov's public notions:

	Hygiaphone
	Sativa, the Calton Studios’96 w/ musician Mark Deas he + 4 other reel-to-reelers [lea, murray, dion, dave identimasked & armed w/ knives to satisfy management fire safety stipulations] in separate polythene clad booths over sanitized but subtly festering environment the black walled dim/low lit chillout room of an anarcho vegan techno club first white sheeted then clingfilmed a polythene labyrinth erected of enclosures waiting room suggestive all the chairs shrunk wrapped beef livers pig ear bouquet locusts in the mixing box gave one person a whitey everyone had the experience etched in their memory of clubbing history ‘it was so light we couldn’t skin up’
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	. . . . . beltane/sativa drummers beating a bass drum as a negative white woman on the side of a hill in the dark on a fake acropolis [Edinburgh’s disgrace] has its charm apart the bruised knees but best achievement [swastika aside] upsetting the pagans in a processional march on samhuinn by dressing the 13 drummers in christian imagery –13 stations of the cross stitched onto shrouds acquired by personally visiting every funeral parlour in the town
	hair armour
	Hygiene Museum, [where else but Germany ?] Dresden '9? cocciacostumier is the most talented costume designer had privilege to encounter but she's also an exquisitely veiled fascist, dictating people by dressing(trussing) them up she makes costumes for people to make them do performances for her so it's a bind & an honour at the same time. over 3month period spotov gets blindfolded for every fitting of the hair armour w/ intention of filming reaction to discovery of the costume. However, it never being deemed quite finished spotov ends up blindfolded for hours&hours in various locations over 2 years. Also forbidden to touch, the first public exposure a reaction to how it felt to be eyeless within its confines. took her 2 hours in a cold toilet cubicle for her icy fingers to stitch me then her mother began tipping promotion vodka down my neck till literally blind drunk. subsequently we were invited to Dresden's Museum of Hygiene where the hapless sightless 'patient' performed within a suspended but mobile semi-opaque cubicle in the entrance hall entirely at the mercy of the yanking museum goers. this was filmed for Deutsche Welle TV not that spot could see it…
	Metacorpus 'Animated Body Appendages'
	st brides church, Ebgh the Arches, Glasgow '98 a dance-based show but where costume comes first & everything else subservient to whim of the designer [cocciacostumier's head of iron again ] she asks spotov w/ zero experience music composition to make 5 pieces of music specifically for her costumes … biggest boost & trust imaginable.In a month (obsessive) managed to discover both composition and the technicalities of recording [old school 4track reel-to-reel]. under name swab [baws backwards] once discovered that prolapse already taken so got to hear my first ever music loud in a church joy of joys even if trapped in a polythene cubicle going mental again [see hair armour]
	Mame
	the Calton Studios '9? w/ the Sativa drummers as Strummers & Plumbers in 9 person live audio piece spread around & above the dancefloor of muchly hippie beltane benefit club context. pneumatic drill may be an early '80s industrial music cliché but not the prim indoor concrete pulverisation of this librarian w/ jackhammer in the middle of the dancefloor classic quote: 'oops' as girl tripped over it helped by bla, not helped by getting all wood & roofing felt stolen on the day of the show, built a glenrothes inspired hut/ Anderson shelter for independence complete w/ concrete hexagonal paving [crazier after] lace curtain & mame plaque on the door forearm challenging to play along w/ the other musicians most of whom couldnae see through the crowds when the PA shut off cutting the DJs off suddenly realised my duty to [get back to my post] re-Mame & solo jackhammer w/ Diesel's alarmbells people were dancing. . . security guy tries to stop me but ignore him feigning lack of comprehension [there is hilarious but shite quality vid bla has hysterics over] till eventually [thankfully] he unplugs my industrial transformer >
	the Treatmeant Room
	Under the Duvet Aidsinburgh '99 w/ Mr.deas a 'kidnap' of willing victims: clipboarded recruiters [bla & Mercy] summoned porters w/ walkie talkies after taking details from clubbers who were strapped onto articulated stretchers, blindfolded, carried through the venue to a destination unknown where a complete false room was constructed with utterly improbable perspectives but which 'worked' from the horizontal position in which they were rotated once the gas had been administered & the blindfold removed for their personal attentions by the Futurist master & his Krankenschwesters within a disconcerting environment of looming mechanized hospital innards.The blindfold was then reinstated and the porters [our Bud, Kneel, Murray,Tony -wigs off to them]would carry the disorientatee back to whence they’d come without the slightest possibility of divining where they'd been.

	Metacorpus 'Sound & Suspension'
	st brides , Ebgh 2000 costume led dance performance relating to workings of the inner ear for which designed the acoustic set to act as visual soundtrack In addition to the soundtrack asked to design and construct the set so had the ambitious notion of combining these two and making the set make the music & also convey something visually of the way sound operates intense research & experimentation period working again w/ Mr Deas as Grievance* * Grievance stems from the contract & the names of the offenders shall be withheld to protect the guilty
	Pope'seye view
	inside glasscases entranceway Vault, the arches, glasgow 2001 Foot and Mouth inspired performance (gratuitous movement of meat up & down ladders inside the glass cases of the entranceway, ironing tongue, shaving chops..),

STIFF

Intervention fashion show the arches, Glasgow 2001
hardscore cardboard costume expose of the fashion world imagine my delight when realised they were unwitting putting me first. picture the scene: Scotland's biggest fashion show catwalk boldlit May Stain pre-installed pristinely inanimate as the audience pile in (1/2 hr without so much as a twitch) then the vaulted room fills with the sound of me retching and the anonymous ultra rigidity glides stiffly by preserving illusion till the protracted skirt folds part to reveal filthyfagbutt knickers & heel dragging package greasy w/chips(will somebody please tell her) to looped (qu)easylistening strains so that's the official version but the best bit the farcical departure the nunnish white paper veil only affords a sliver of floor vision & me armless hairsbreadth away from stumbling into the blackvoid 4feetbelow as 2 unseen voices try to guide my feet onto the step but all guise of professionality crumples as the rigidskirtage has no intention of, utterly negating all possible hope of descending the stair giggle 'just get the fucker off me' in front of all assembled pressdignitarieswhathaveyou and have to skip skirtless down the steps presenting full fagbuttview meanwhile miss verity a vision of perfect loveliness of course o and the dog was the fashion accessory of eliza who patiently constructed the stinking fagknickers legions of other people's fester worn next to my privates…
musical score: Attendant B's 'Really Retch' whitey pitched plodding bossa nova accompanied by genuine girl retching solo
designed from scratch(score & slit)

		Abstract Operation
		Bongoloid,ebgh & Sunday Social Arches Weege 2001 commission to design lifesize game for whole room of club during ebgh festival. highly popular opportunity to test surgical prowess the punters were all garbed in surgical attire and required to extract fresh organs & human teeth through increasingly tricky installations of electrified implements Failure instantly triggered total blackout of the room and devised sound effects but successful completion of all 4 stages was rewarded with Miss Fortune's medical mystical tarot reading
		inedible buffet inedible buffet press launch the Arches 2002 haha got to make the press look like spazzers bobbing for haircakes & someone ate one whole indulging but not yet satisfying my longoverdue craving for sausagerolled hairdos were the lovely hostesses miss diferro & aLice

	inflight aptitude tests garage for Station Crash Tender Museum of Flight 2002 ---- this was a commission to provide some entertainment for kids on the airshow day [tricky - all inspirations for missiles &exploding devices kids would've loved but prob not their parents] using their teeth to yank down oxygen masks, sick bags, cutlery and hot wet towels suspended from pulley systems designed so the 3 air hostesses could adjust the turbulence factor depending on the age and ability of the children; sucking up peas and removing spamrounds & square eggs from a rotating display unit with forks strapped to their elbows finally wheeling the completed tray on a trolley with electrical contacts on its wheels across a tilting platform without triggering the alarm bells by bumping into the footrails sponsored by British Airways quality tinkering: stalker on trolley our hostesses: poly & our Bud

		The Berkeley Institute
		basement of the Arches, glasgow 2002 commissioned to create a piece for a theatre festival based on the 'institution' to get away from predictability of institutional grimness & give the audience on their way to & from the other shows a taste of something more exquisite, glorifying the Institution, this live show was inspired by Busby Berkeley [although never actually seen any of his films] creating the scale through the kaleidoscopic use of mirrors, the show was viewed through spyhole lenses set into a false neutral grey wall backing onto one face of the entirely mirrored room and the soundtrack piped down tubes hanging above the heads of the peeping audience. the multi-heighted office positions the 3 secretaries in an ascending spiral at their desks accessed by ladders and steps . as the eternally looped piece progressed fans mounted in the desks blew the papers into the air so that the secretaries were catching at their drifting work in an endless flurry of white paper but ever perfectly serene in their forever office. how could you wish to be anywhere else .. sound [of paper] recorded by fin who live mixed the office ambience watch a film of the girls at work

	Protlor & Gamble - who is the protlor?
	Tinsmiths Workshop New St carpark 2002 a [not so] young [as he seemed] chap from so-called 'aberdeen' with no history at all knocks on my door asking how he can become an artist….so spotov&verity attempt to give the lad opportunities they never had - project protégé taking humour from the inadvancedment their ages - no really ready for the protégé time in life but quick to assume role plain little spinsters with a knack of making themselves useful stickering the streets with who is the protlor? before the postering campaign for the solo exhibition they have set up for him. they have room for doubt too but the spinsister [sic] Miss Gambles need not resort to the disappointment show & become insufferable figures of puffed up pride who can't stop screeching the praises of the "dear boy".

Resistance to Liberation

inside the Deutzer Brucke , Köln 2003
in response to war in Iraq & running away from Britain & the divine concrete interior of the bridge w/ acoustics to die for
hotel cologne's oldest dense wood beamed yellowed glass affair & permissioned to dress in some dining area up a spiral stair in the middle the restaurant descent was supreme midair frozen fork scenes as we spazhobbled sideways to fit our delicate stiff paper encumbrances round the wooden hairpins & quite some reception -rakes of approving arabs outside where should've perhaps stayed as totally in myelement whereas embarassed of the art setup in the bridge - not intended as a 'performance' w/ start&endtime for the ill entertained people to stand & gawp at - was just one of the 22 installations that happened to have live sound by realgirls they had to go uphill [on bridge's delicious curve floor] agaAINST the wind through the chaotic tethered flutter of the scores of chevrons invisibly strung up & eddying polystyrene balls while spotov&verity provided resined string, membrane & megaphone accompaniment
ourBud [who filmed] fought heroic solo battle w/ the Chermanwings to get windmachine on plane back

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tresor berlin
adm amsterdam
ladyfest amsterdam
sotodo berlin
blancs manteaux paris 2003
w/ damo suzuki neverending tour edinburgh 2004

tunnels etc etc

Abstract [ed] propaganda
ambiguous

some dedication required to reach prime targets & even to prime targets –
lefthanded [after falling off my bike on route] 1am painting over bad tags to claim the 17 discs of shrubhill at dawn copshot
interesting how long they last
which monuments do our heritage police watch over
calton hill & the national museum were quite long lived but greyfriar’s bobby is clearly sacrosanct
not much feedback from street acts but did have to wait while a tourist blocked my path as he photographed one on a black rock by jacob’s ladder