Tongues at the Gun Show
After the remake of Schneeman’s 70’s performance at Spank!, the Cosmic Family is into performance art. For the Gun show, Sunday 20 August, they devised a new act involving Freddy and Erika making a speech on the downfalls of miscommunication in world politics, and the resulting violence and terror.
‘While there is a lot og things that we can do such as participating in debates, signing petitions, demonstrating, etc’… Freddy said ‘this is only cutting the branches of the problem.’ He announced that the Cosmic Family has devised a special method that will eradicate communication problems from the root.
The solution was demonstrated live at the Gun Show, in Edinburgh. In pictures and video below.
The Solvents volunteers demonstrated how to ‘get rid of the root of our problems of communication’.
Freddy then proceeded to sell the freshly cut tongues of his volunteers: a Polish tongue ‘to polish the floor’, a Russian tongue ‘like Russian roulette - you never know what you get!’.
Erika walked through the audience and proposed people to expand their knowledge by buying her mother tongue, while the volunteers (Ula Dajerling and Dimitri Paranyushkin) held sticks with tongues hanging from them above the audience, who either screamed in disgust or reached up to try and catch a tongue.
The space turned into a market for a moment, until Freddy promised to present more solutions to today’s torments in the *Cosmic Family* workshop-seminar.
The Tongue Act was the first of a series of ‘Cosmic Family demonstrates…’ acts. You can see more acts on http://www.thesolvents.net/cosmicfamily/trailer.html
This act was devised by The Solvents in collaboration with Ula Dajerling.
Photos and Video by Alex Forge (www.alexforge.net)
The hosting venue was The Gun Show (www.thegunshow.co.uk)