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undo is a duo which, since its inception in 1997, explores the barely perceptible, the unacceptable and the forgettable. undo. delete. efface. do not.
from the No Music Festival 2000 cd booklet: There is something about small conservative cities that engenders a kind of resistance to the kind of provincialism one would assume would stem from it. In London the resistance was and remains straightforward, capitalized, shouted -a vociferous "NO!" undo is less emphatic, in fact, it's lowercase, nevertheless it shares the same resistant strain. We are both resisting arrest, both heeding Beckett's warning "The thing to avoid, I don't know why, is the spirit of system." undo is stuck in the 'I don't know why', on stage we stuffed canned snails into our mouths, we mined our bucal cavities for fluid sonorities, we deranged our electronics. London did not know what to do with us, we don't know what to do with ourselves. It was a success. (Christof Migone) Two mouths open toward the wide-open nothing were saying "no" in its affirmative movement of excess. Stuffed by dead snails, these two mouths were not even able to speak, saying "no" by being unable to say a word—a silent speech present through its absence. Through the week, different extreme gestures were implicitly saying destroy –softly, tenderly, absolutely. A word— an infinitive marked by the infinite—without a subject; a work - destruction - which is aocomplished by the work itself. (Alexandre St-Onge writing and quoting a writer's paper about another writer in a book he bought during the No Music Festival) |
