The questions, more or less, and approximately, the answers:

– Is there a relation between avant garde and violence? YES. Starting from Marinetti and futurismus. Everything had to be made new again, and such a revolution had a violent component.

– Is literary or artistic influence a source of anxiety? This form of questioning belongs to the XIX century, imagining an artist or writer “creating” alone among books. Nowadays influences are too present everywhere to be afraid of them.

– Is the 68 movement still very influential? Yes, but not the 68 as it really was, but the 68 that we create today, again and again, a different product depending on who is speaking.

– Is the Oedipus complex still relevant today? We are not sure, we’ve got to ask our mothers.

– A quote from (sorry, we were not able to avoid danger) Wolfgang Huber, SPK: “I realize that theory makes you stupid, but stupidity sets you free”

FREE TABU!!!

We have as well a mysterious new Klau Mich show coming up IN AUGUST 3 with Felix Ensslin, Ulf Aminde and Ellen Blumenstein. We only know that the title is “putting paid”. It will be introduced by Tabu. Here are some of the sentences that will be said during the opening monologue:

“Meine Damen und meine Herren welcome to the Klau Mich show, or, in English, the STEAL ME show. Very welcome the audience here in Ständehaus, very welcome to those who see us through local television, and very welcome to our world wide audience seeing us live. My name is Tabu. I know the name sounds funny but it is extremely common in Polynesia, where I come from, and where as you perhaps know, Tabus were invented. Polynesia. Do you know what a Tabu is, right? Do you sir? Could you name some tabus? Well, there in Polynesia, we had tabus before you here in Europe or in Greece knew the name for those things that bothered you so much, that made your life so difficult, like being in love with your mother, your father or your brothers and sisters, and finding it hard to admit it to yourselves, and then all of a sudden you found the name for that: Tabu. And so this is my name. I am a woman and I was born 25 years ago in Polynesia. French is my mother tongue. If you have been in other Klau Mich shows before… Has anyone here been in other Klau Mich shows before? yes? Then you perhaps know that I have been here since the first Klau Mich show, I am the stewardess, or the hostess, serving water to the guests, doing what they tell me to do, yes, I am a sort of servant. Do you know how the Klau Mich show begins normally? yes, indeed, first there is the host who welcomes the audience, ask questions about where do you all come from, looks for a bit of audience participation, like singing… or answering questions… and then the show begins. Do you believe in audience participation? Do you? Do you? You? The difference today, is that there is no host. There is no host!! Don’t ask me why… perhaps it has to do with the fact that documenta is now in its second half already and a lot of things don’t work anymore an a lot of artists are leaving. So here the host wasn’t there and then, in panic, they asked me- Tabu, you must be the host. Mais monsieur, je ne sais pas comment être le host. But Tabu, you have been here from the beginning and you know how it goes. Oui monsieur, mais je ne connais pas le invités je ne connais rien. Tabu, you do it and that’s an order; and now good bye I am going on holidays. Good bye.

So here I am, there is nobody else. Yes, I am the hostess, a servant if you want. I don’t know who the guests are; I don’t know what they are going to talk about. I know nothing, je ne sais rien, quoi!! I know the title, as you know it: putting paid. What does it mean? I did my job well, I looked it up: Putting Paid means-

(Tabu reads from a paper)

Putting paid: something has been terminated, and paid. Putting paid to something. It means that something is over, it bothers us no more. Someone was annoying, now he no longer sucks: you put paid to him. It means also to end with the ilusion of somebody, to suddenly stop someone from being able to do what they want or hope to do. It also means that something is finally done, and now there is time and space to start something new. It also means that something is no longer important.

But that’s all I know, I don’t know anything else, I am nobody here, the fucking hostess! Lights dim in the public, the light concentrates on the stage, very powerful- Tabu goes to the record player while repeating- the fucking hostess… the fucking hostess… I am a servant… I am…

Ladies and Gentlemen, Pirate Jenny!”

http://youtu.be/aFP3x4bKpZE

The Guest have time to speak and presented their ideas and works, but the conversation didn’t really explose between them, Ellen managed well to keep going in with questions, and time runs very fast! We didn’t have enough minutes to speak about all the subjetcs…

Anyway the final was a dialogue between women and men just before the Vinyl blows his sound into Ständehaus and people start to dance toghether!

See you soon,

Tabu

An Interview with T and L Guardians and Security for the Klau Mich Show by Dora Garcia.

Tabu: Does the set of the talk show give you any associations or remind of you anything?

L: [The set reminds me of] the 1970’s with the chairs that were once modern in that time that are now being used as new again.

T: Without the chairs, the carpet and the Klau Mich sign it looks like marketing or advertising for Ikea.

Tabu: Do you think Ikea took style designs from 1970’s talk shows?

Torsten: No, I don’t think so.

Tabu: What is the place of a TV talk show today? Do you watch TV and if so what kind of shows?

Torsten: I like to watch documentaries, and films. No talk shows. In Germany, I don’t like talk shows they are all so fake. In television, fakeness is not interesting, while it is interesting in this context of art. I like Documentaries because they aren’t fake.

Tabu: The talk for this upcoming show is about Sexual emancipation of women and the memories of national socialism and the Holocaust.

Do you think sex can be used politically, or can it ever be a military weapon?

Torsten: nein, jeder mensch ist verschieden. sex is keine macht fur politik oder krieg.

Tabu: but what about rape?

Torsten: wenn krieg ist, vergewaltigen die männer die frauen, dass ist eine ander sache als das militaire es sieht.

Do you consider yourself a feminist?

Torsten: Nein, ich bin ein familien Vater.

Tabu: Dass ist nich ein feminist, warum nicht? was bedeute Feminist fur dich?

Torsten: Hard, very hard to say. I live in here and now. Mir ist es igal oder denken. Dass ist nicht fur mich für sagen ich bin kein dinge.

Tabu: That I understand well, but for me it is how you live.

Torsten: Ohne frauen keine welt. If I believed that women were lower then men that I wouldn’t be married or have kids.

Tabu: Is feminism something important, necessary, here in Germany or perhaps more urgent in other countries?

Torsten: In andere landern, fur allen dingen im Islam, muss eine gleichberichtigung geben. Frauen mussen kochen, mussen kinder kriegen, und zuhause bleiben. Deutschland ist gleichberechtigung.

Tabu: Thanks!

He receveid a shirt but this currency wasn’t the right value. Coin altough to be money also produce sound and that was the point. Make noise with money, to do an “Augenblick” at Cabaret Movie, with Liza Minelli.

Of course, money and coins, when they are use for music, change their status…

cheap Fosamax

In Die Klau Mich Show we are not afraid to have manies Tabus! More we are and best it is!

Thank again to Clara, Maxime and Karim!

Yesterday was the week 6, rehearsal, theater chausium, Tabu, Dora couldn’t be with us physically but she was keep an eye on Standehouse movements from the web cam.

Have the professional audience on stage is dynamic, ideas grows up faster and one Tabu had a lot of propositions!

today there’is not rehearsal but people can see the stage, speak with Tabu and push thought so far as possible!

Tomorrow everybody is back, working toghether and preparing all the best for friday show.

The Show is only the top of the Iceberg, be or Titanic and come to crash in Standen Haus!

greatings

Tabu Rebellion produced some new Tabu point of view pictures here presented!

Like in the rehearsal the ending Rock’n’Roll free everybody in a collective and crazy dance!

See soon

Tabu