It was a great pleasure to show RAGE BAIT this past Friday! A play written by Maddie Kuzak, performed by her, Oda Haugerud and Dr. Fuck as part of the program for Haugerud’s solo exhibition Guinness World Records Audio Guide to Her. We want to extend a big thanks to @crawl_space@oda.haugerud@__drfuck and @jonteprippz for realising this campy jewel at skēnē, as well as a thank you to everyone who joined us!
The exhibition continues to run Thursday—Saturday, 13-16 (or by appointment), ending with a finissage on Saturday 20 December 🪐 More info to come.
Img: Stills from footage by Maja Li Härdelin @majamoshjka
THANK YOU!!!! To @skene_sk for their support & enthusiasm. And to all the Malmo people I love Malmo baby!!!!
God bless the RAGEBAIT soldiers: @jonteprippz for controlling the sound and smoke, @lokerisberg aka @__drfuck for making Real Violence so sexy and @oda.haugerud for being number one business man and king of making this happen. I loved performing our play in the middle of your beautiful installation.
And thank you to @dogsgo2heaven for this footage ❤️
RAGEBAIT — This Friday 28.11, 19:00!
We are delighted to welcome you to skēnē this Friday, where we will show the play RAGEBAIT as part of the programme for Oda Haugerud’s exhibition Guinness World Records Audio Guide to Her. The play is written by Maddie Kuzak and will be performed by Kuzak, Haugerud and Dr. Fuck. Looking forward!
RAGEBAIT began with the title. In conjunction with Haugerud’s exhibition, RAGEBAIT is a collaboration between Haugerud and Kuzak. Two noise rockers as well as visual artists, Haugerud and Kuzak are interested in applications of shock value and transgression in musical subculture. Rage bait is a term originally used to describe provocation to garner engagement on social media, but can be retroactively appropriated to describe any performance that is contingent on sustaining an environment of provocation. RAGEBAIT is a play about the social media phenomenon, in the tradition of performances defined by audience provocation predating social media such as the Grand Guignol, punk rock, WWE wrestling and tabloid talk shows. RAGEBAIT is dedicated to Lisa Carver, aka Lisa Suckdog, a singular writer, and a playwright and performer of transgressive operas, one of which Kuzak toured with in 2016.
@oda.haugerud@crawl_space@lokerisberg@jonteprippz
The exhibition and programme is supported by Kulturrådet and Malmö stad @kulturradet.se@malmo_stad_officiell
“Les Morphinomanes”, the first time I think my conceptual practice has crossed over into my painting/drawing. I have a compulsion where I destroy my drawing and paintings by hyper focusing on a stupid little detail the point where I fuck up the entire painting or erase through the paper. I must be a little addicted to the shame I feel afterwards. Anyways I fucked up this drawing and instead of finding a way to patch it back together I “murdered” it. I abused it with various objects like sandpaper and rags. And then I found the shittiest frame in my closet, so shitty I got splinters putting the drawing in it. Here’s my shame.
On view in a great group show @thesuetear curated by angelic demon worshiper @leib.jonathan
Last summer I helped with @shelleyuckotter ’s meta movie project, in particular helping with wardrobe/hair/make up. The story takes place in the 70s and involves some acid casualty culty freaks interrupting a hedonistic gathering of bourgeois nyers. You already know I had the time of my life compiling references & making a character sheet for the freaks & the hipsters. We went upstate to film & I found out 95% of filmmaking is waiting for camera and lights. It was so fun being a part of a project with a ton of multi-talented people. I can finally post now that the culmination of the project, Shelly’s paintings of the film, are about to be shown in LA! 🖤🖤🖤
(Clothing & accessories sourced by @skanklaurent & @okwatevr )
