Never Hang Around
The performance Never Hang Around is the fifth of eleven soundsculptures of Minimetal. It is part of a series of eleven songs which were written in 1994 by the duo Nik Emch and Laurent Goei in Zurich. Exclusiv for the Avant Art Festival in Wroclaw they have created a new performance based on their last piece called Super Biker Girl. It consisted of five acts, in which it questionned the emotional feelings of the musicians while playing that song. During the performance the super biker girl never appeared in person. She was immaginatory and the only purpose of these emotions. In Never Hang Around, the super biker girl comes to reality. As it is told in a famous Swiss alp legend, where the creators of Sennentuntschi, an artificial female sex object made-out-of-straw, become the targets of her manipulation and revenge. The two musicians emerge out of the movie of Super Biker Girl as two Jumping Jack scarecrows and are forced to a Dance to Hell by the guest singer Anna Leuenberger.
Velvet Underground
The Song VELVET UNDERGROUND has been shown as a performance for the first
time in Annecy-France, 2008, during a festival presenting new Swiss
tendencies. The performance told on a totally new interpretations level the
famous story of Red Cape. But there the woods were dead and Red Cape felt
some sort of attraction for danger: MINIMETAL as The Wolf. The fascination
of threatning music (fascination of Evil) paralysed her at the entrance of
the cabin.
Nik Emch and Laurent Goei work since the beginning of their collaboration as
musicians AND visual artists. They always consider a concert as a SCULPTURE.
In Wroclaw Minimetal show the props used for that Live-performance as a
SOUNDSCULPTURE, an in-situ installation created for the gallery in which the
Live act of music has been transfered into a videoprojection.
