[Transmission-Sound coming in… electric squeaking… like being channeled in from elsewhere].

Location: Swarmmachine Concert

Unknown Actor: It is known as “The Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinzation Weekender”, they take one guest with seven stewards for eight hours, once every eight months. Some say it’s because there are eight pieces on a chessboard, others say it's the eight-fold path to Buddha or the eight trigrams of the I Ching. If you see it as science, you might even declare it is… because there are eight families in the periodic table.

Anyways, people have to be vetted before they can enter the experience. They sign up on the premise that they will hear all the sounds of the universe come together after eight hours. I read this blog post, that people on the other side of the experience have declared this as reaching the exceptional state of void.
Conduit: Oblivion Effect

Unknown Actor: or the Pleasure Dome

Conduit: Battery Effect

Unknown Actor:..these states are then written into your epigenetic material and passed on to your future kin in their muscle, wetware matter, whatever else we eventually get hooked up to. I mean who wouldn’t want to give their future selves this gift?!?!

Conduit: I wish my past self had…turning up or down my desired organs, ssssqueering them.

Unknown Actor: (laughing) If you don’t believe the last part at least you go home with the experience and a documented recording of it all - sweat, tears, euphoria, just like when you used to get snapped on a roller coaster, mouth wide screaming.

It takes place at Mu..I heard

[Transmission sound coming out…electric squeaking]

Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinzation Weekender is an interdisciplinary role-played work which takes its final form is a mutli-channel video and sound installation, The work is guarded by Nubis, a character leaked from Mu. The piece takes place through the lens of a fiction theory narrative centered around a group of people applying for an experience which promises to deliver all the sounds of the universe. The group buys into the psycho-spiritual-quest experience economy utilizing tools of apophenia and pareidolia to find the exceptional state – which can be a void (oblivion effect) or the pleasure dome (battery effect). The work brings up questions of social entanglement, translation and identity from personal, communal and ancestral frameworks. Awareness is raised to the complex entanglement of direct physiological effects of frequencies and the psychological effects of narratives and role-playing. By speaking in tongues and limbs the players subvert and mutate reality, opening alternative and transformative landscapes of existing together in a space they refer to as Mu. Departing from a theory framed as “bornless immortality” the piece Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinzation Weekender explores this phenomena both in the present time space continuum and as a epigenetics model.

In the making of the work, the role play was performed twice in real-time through 8 core characters, played by 16 people. The first iteration captured only sound, which was fed into the second iteration which captured only the body. The result is a folded media relic viewed over 4 screens and 4 speakers of both events, the voice and the body combined in one unit although fed by 2 human bodies in other times. The media relic acts as the memento of the weekender, similar to “when you used to get snapped on a roller coaster, mouth wide screaming.”