ThefucKINGFUCKS

Infobox musical artist
Name = thefucKINGFUCKS


Background = group_or_band
Alias = Red Sniper, S338, SUITE 338, Kissing Kousins, PostPunkPaganPop
Origin = Belgium
Genre = Industrial rock Alternative rock Performance Art
Years_active = 2003 - present
Associated_acts = Front 242 Kendell Geers
Current_members = Kendell Geers Patrick Codenys Ilse Ghekiere
Past_members = Lisbeth Gruwez
Heike Langsdorf Tawny Anderson Florence Augendre Georgina Teunissen Geneviève Lagravière Marlies van de Poel
Marina Abramović
Stanilas de Rola Klossowski

thefucKINGFUCKS is an resistance movement Belgium industrial rock performance art group that began as a musical side-project for controversial visual artist Kendell Geers Patrick Codenys of Front 242 and Choreographer / Performer Ilse Ghekiere from Charleroi Danses [ [http://www.charleroi-danses.be/Public/Spectacle.php?ID=1731&language=eng Sinfonia Eroica / Charleroi Danses 2007 ] ] . The group was launched in April 2003 at the Pompidou Centre in Paris with a concert called "Prototype" under the name "Red Sniper" [ [http://www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/2f6d2a49fa88f902c1256da5005ef33f/8ccd1388bb588838c1256cd7004dd9fd!OpenDocument Centre Pompidou - Red Sniper - Art culture musée expositions cinémas conférences débats spectacles concerts ] ] [ [http://www.artthrob.co.za/03may/diary.html A R T T H R O B / Sue Williamson'S Diary ] ] Since then the group have performed in music festivals like Elektra Festival Electronic Festival in Montreal Canada [ [http://www.montrealmirror.com/2005/042805/cover_music.html Montreal Mirror : Cover : Music: Elektra festival ] ] , a concert called "10 Guests" curated by Revolting Cocks founding member Luc Van Acker [ [http://www.kkunst.com/kk/20030626728.php KKunst.com - - Guests - Internettijdschrift voor Vlaamse en Nederlandse podiumkunsten ] ] , "Guided by Heroes" curated by Fashion Designer Raf Simons for Z33 in Hasselt [ [http://www.kunstonline.info/levelone/php/events/eventpage.php?id=10110&chapter=about www.kunstonline.info | levelOne | events | nr.4.02. guided by heroes ] ] and the Techno Music Festival 10DAYSOFF in Gent [ [http://10douk.lappentext.com/line-up/2007/03/fuckingfucks.php 10 Days Off | Line-up ] ] . Bootleg recordings of this concert are available for download on pirate torrent sites.

Background

thefucKINGFUCKS are an Open source Artist collective strongly influenced by the ideas and theories of the Acéphale group of Georges Bataille from the 1930s.De Bom onder het artistieke establishment, Gonzo, pp.18-21, #81, July-August, Belgium] The collective functions within a more experimental based esoteric research group and an exoteric Performance Art and music group. Secretive research into the history and nature of rituals, rites, initiation, sacred sexuality and Magick is then translated into the public, more popular languages of performance, art, music, dance or installation. Following the Acéphale model, there is a complete rejection of any form of social and political hierarchy and the group opposes any authoritarian form of leadership in terms of both their structure and their production. The operative members change even though the core has remained fixed since its inception in 2003. The group rejects the divisions that exist today between the different art forms and instead insist on working simultaneously in the worlds of dance, music and the visual arts. Frequently the collective presents their Performances or actions alongside their official more famous productions. For instance "PostPunkPaganPop" was the title of a solo exhibition by Kendell Geers at the Depuryluxemburg Gallery in Zurich in June 2008. At the opening he presented a performance with the same name as "thefucKINFUCKS" [ [http://www.depuryluxembourg.com/?fd=1&ff=1 de Pury & Luxembourg ] ] It was also the title for a performance by thefucKINGFUCKS presented at the Cimatics V.J. Festival in Brussels in 2007 [ [http://cimatics.com/festival2007/program/saturday/theater_the_fuckingfucks.php Cimatics