31日はHalloweenですね。
It's been a good while since We last threw our disguised TFR Party. Heartbreaking things have happened to Us and We would like to somehow fill this long emptiness and doleful totality with impressions of the sinister mortal coil We found ourselves sunken in (hence *horror vacui*= fear of emptiness). TFR vol."Halloween Horror Vacui" is not the supermarket's pumpkin nor the commonplace witch of the garlands, nor the cheap gimmick of a vampire and werewolf, nor the whorey prostitution of a fairytale princess. It is the night of the obscure irony, it is to expose the suicidal monster that We have created inside, to make a mockery of Ourselves and our alter egos in the ambit of a guerrilla party, knowing full well that everybody is going to be pointing at us and talking behind our back. It is, to a certain extent, a sort of tumult of vengeance, humiliation and redemption all at the same time, and in connection with Our favorite holiday, Halloween, on the eve of the Day of the Dead in the slasher Mexican calendar...
~> Hints are Beksinski's post-apocalyptic painting, Joel-Peter Witkin's photography, the psychological suffering of Haneke's La Pianiste, the horror vacui of Jacques Callot, Adolf Wölfli and Robert Heineken, the music of Suicide and Diamanda Galas, Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, Dostoevski's Notes from Underground, Edvard Munch's melancholic anxiety and John Carpenter's film Halloween.
Halloweenの日は死者の魂が復活すると言われています。日本でいうとお盆と同じ考えですね。Halloweenの日に仮装するのは悪い魂を追い払えるといわれているからだそうです。
仮装とは読んで字のごとく仮に他のものの姿をすること。外見の自分本来の姿を隠し他の姿になる事。それはもしかしたら内面にあるあなたの隠れている本性が姿を現すきっかけになるかもしれませんね。
Joel-Peter Witkin
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