Jutta Koether - Metalist Moment

Prospective 1981-2004… Steven Parrino. Before (plus ou moins)… Andy Warhol, Electric Chairs, 1971. Bastard Creature… Michael Lavine, Courtney Love Kneeling, 1994. Metalist Moment… A 25 minutes performance by Jutta Koether member of Steven Parrino's Electrophilia…

Steven Parrino (bass guitar) and Jutta Koether (synth) construct music that becomes a megalith that collapses into a black hole. Since the mid-nineties, Electrophilia has been pushing the cause of the meta-extreme within music. Developing from performance works that Steven Parrino did in 1979, grinding two electric guitars into each other at high volume, Electrophilia becomes a black rite. Jutta, no stranger to Extreme performance art, joined Electrophilia in 2002. Steven Parrino died January 1, 2005.

Jutta Koether emerged from the art scene in Cologne. She is a noted painter, writer, rock and art critic, musician and performance artist, and her projects often interlace all of these assumed roles.
Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether regularly collaborate on installations and performance projects. Apart from being a founding member, bass player, vocalist and guitarist in the legendary alternative rock group Sonic Youth, Gordon has worked on numerous creative projects across many genres.

Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether - Reverse Karaoke (London, 2005). Film: Christabel Stewart via SHOWstudio.com

Her Noise A video on Ubu.com documenting the development of the Her Noise project between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset.

Bonus: Kim Gordon - We Are The Princesses .mp3

That was yesterday evening, the 'vernissage' of Steven Parrino’s retrospective that gathers nearly one hundred major works by the artist (in the Palais de Tokyo - La Marque Noire - May 24 to August 26, 2007).

More info: http://www.dogsbloodrising.org (thanks for the contribution!)