Print Media 2000

‘Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin: The Expanding Cosmologies of the Live Space Ritual’
Greatly expanded and revised version of an essay first published in the programme to the Space Music Festival held at the Korzo Theatre in Den Haag in 1999

‘Any Disease on Earth: Richard H. Kirk in conversation, January 2000’
Politics and BPMs at the dawn of the new millennium, from Cabaret Voltaire to Electronic Eye, algorithmic surveillance and covert culture. Published in the first issue of The Wire to appear in 2000.

‘Dawn of the Replicants: Luther Blisset, World Domination and the Virtual Pop Star’
Multiple personality disorders, fragmenting identities and the collapse of political power in Italy, published in The Wire.

Countless reviews, short features and columns appeared throughout 2000 in The Wire, Sight and Sound, Manga Max and Bizarre.

Events and Performances 2000

Oedipus Rex
‘Mickey and Walt: One Sick Motherfucker’, a text in thirteen divisions and a Chorus commissioned by Mangina for video projection as part of their production of the Stravinksy/Cocteau opera Oedipus Rex, staged at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London, October 31.

Lectures 2000

‘The Cosmic Interference Lecture’
A talk on Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Werner Von Braun, presented at the Lux Cinema in London. With screenings of Space is the Place and Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow of the Sun.

Audiovisual 2000