Past autumn I was invited again to make a performance for
International Festival Of Electronic Arts in Maribor, Slovenia. I was glad that
organizers make some space for more analogue/mechanical/electro approaches in
their programme so I took a chance to introduce less known but very meaningful
manifesto of great slovenian avantgarde poet Srečko Kosovel, titled 'To
Mechanics!'
Manifesto,
which Kosovel wrote in July 1925, a year before his death at 22, begins: »Mechanics cannot die because it has no
soul. Paradox is incomprehensible to mechanics because it transcends mechanical
laws. Paradox is a leap from mechanics into life. Paradox is alive as an electricity. But electricity is not mechanical.
Electricity is an element. SO DON'T BE MECHANICAL, BE ELECTRICAL!«
As a
metamechanic I am deeply intrigued by this visionary text and it's meaning in
digital age. But more about that after July this year, when Federmeister's
special performance will took place on his Bukovje Base farm to dignify 90th
anniversary of creation of the manifesto.
One of
the compositions I include into the performance was also 'Fail Better' which I
dedicated to another visionary deeply connected to electricity – Nikola Tesla.
It was performed for the first time and I used qoutes from his interviews as a
text. This time in Slovene. English version will follow as a studio track...
Stay tuned...
