CRANK STURGEON comes from Maine & California, and has performed regularly in Leipzig between 2003 and 2016 - including an afternoon presentation on the boat MS Weltfrieden, cruising up and down the Karl-Heine Canal. After an absence of almost ten years in Leipzig, Crank returns with one of his performances.

Crank Sturgeon has been working in the outer peripheries of noise and lowercase performance art since 1992. Building on the foundations of the Dadaists, Joseph Beuys, and Allan Kaprow, Crank blurs the margins between quasi-art lecture and presentation, fusing junk noise, contact microphones, and irreverent wordplay with a punk sensibility. Crank's concerts highlight the athletics of the absurd, merging improvisation, props, and unwieldy costumes, with tactical approaches that teeter on surprise and failure.

To the concert, Crank Sturgeon's Cdr "Bun Journal" will be released in a edition of 30 on RFTS.



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HERMIT dwells in a remote fishing village on the west coast of Canada. Eric Boros' project began as part of the cassette noise scene of the 1990s, a microcosm far removed from the public sphere that aimed to create its own separate economic system whereby interpersonal exchange was prioritized over the simple transfer of money. In Hermit's case, this fusion of noise and protest mirrored the DIY punk ethos, and, regardless of its youthful nature, continues to be an expression of his work.

Hermit's concerts are testaments to limitation and vulnerability; exploring voice, actionist performance, and homemade electronic devices that verge on the edge of functionality. Hermit plunders these depths, weaving a sonicscape that is noisily complex while pushing his own body beyond the boundaries of shame.



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