cut the FAT
A lecture-performance project. In progress since 2016. Premiere 2021.
The bones of this project comprise of ten written journals, interviews in seven languages, research in twenty-nine countries, four animations, 2,000+ field recordings, 1,000+ hours of mass media footage from the 1920’s to the 1990’s, 100 styrofoam heads and my experiential shifts towards what it means to cut the fat in a decade’s time. The irony of this project at this present time is real. Humans are awakening to their own versions of cutting the fat, making shifts and forging new paths towards REAL social change. This is what “cut the FAT” seeks to encompass.
"cut the FAT" intends to reflect on the societal and economic systems all across the world while exposing some of the flaws of capitalist societies. It represents a culmination of my research, writings, thought processes about the effects and impacts of the evolution of language, behavioral sciences, media manipulation and mental conditioning.
It is a densely physical and auditory inquiry of the body's intangible and kinesthetic response to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events can arouse in us. It's aimed through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements today. It investigates political ideologies and explores the forbearance of personal breakdown within the display of moving forward in today's societies.
Composers: Tulpa Noise // SmackDab // Jun Jun
Visual Artist: Warren Harris
Lecturer/Choreographer/Video: The Movement Kitchen
Jello Series - March 6, 2020
An excerpt from "cut the FAT"
Video/Performance: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: Tulpa Noise
a clip from "cut the FAT"
HONEYBEES, THE WISDOM OF CROWDS + COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
Video: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: Ose
a clip from "cut the FAT"
THE MASSES + BANDWAGON EFFECT + CROWD DYNAMICS
Video: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: SmackDab
a clip from "cut the FAT"
MENTAL + SOCIAL + CULTURAL CONDITIONING
Video: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: Jun Jun
a clip from "cut the FAT"
MEDIA MANIPULATION + MASS MIND CONTROL
Video: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: Skeleton Goode
Remixed by Sunshine Primo
a clip from "cut the FAT"
RHETORICAL TACTICS + INTERPLAY + COERCION
Text Rework/Video: The Movement Kitchen
Composer: Jun Jun
a short animation from "cut the FAT"
ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE
Composer + Animation: The Movement Kitchen
a short animation from "cut the FAT"
COGNITIVE BIAS
Composer + Voiceover: Jun Jun
Animation: The Movement Kitchen
a clip from "cut the FAT"
SOCIETAL COLLAPSE
Composer: Jun Jun
Field Recordings & Video: The Movement Kitchen
a clip from "cut the FAT"
RUNNING FALLING
Composer: Space Panther
Video: The Movement Kitchen