Video
Duration:	40'

Jamie Shovlin

Lustfaust

2009

 

 

 

 

22 june 11.00pm

 

PG 18

running time: 40 minutes
Courtyard 1

The project centers on a non-existent German rock band, the Lustfaust, active in East Germany between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The fictional story of this band begins with the creation of memorabilia of every type: photographs, concert ticket-stubs, a list of albums, stories from past live performances, filmed interviews of band members, fanzines, all the way to the creation of a “real” website to convinces even the most skeptical of the existence of Lustfaust. Shovlin's latent objective is to unmask the superficiality of today's news and information, and especially those items coming from the internet.
The performance is constituted by a post-dada “noise” concert, made up of industrial music and electronic experiments related to the “Kosmische Musik” trend in Germany.