Bouzingo means NOISE!
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Freaks, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders
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35 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States
Last Login: 11/2/2009
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| General | This is a fan page that I've created for an ultra-obscure collective from the 1830s. If you've never heard of this group, here's yr chance to get in on it & if you're into it... go to bouzingo.pendugallery.com for more info... then buy the book when it comes out! Thanks for taking an interest.
A little about me...
I am Todd Brooks, better known as Todd Pendu. I am founder/director of The Pendu Organization as well as an independent curator, show-promoter, musician, writer, and visual artist. As musician, I play prepared guitar, oscillators, and electronics in Ghost Moth (with Daniel Carter), Abuse Report, CM*Chaos Majik (formerly Mialessot), Barkminer, and Feral Comb. I have published a book of collected poetic-texts entitled "Analekta: Semantic Texts".
Also, check out my blogs:
'The Adhocist' at http://www.adhocist.blogspot.com... Music Reviews + Writings on Arts & Actions
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'Daily Founds' at http://pendu.wordpress.com - a veritable hive of random radness… Found Visions. Get your daily dose of art rarities and weirdness from a collection of curated videos culled from the web and youtube. From John Cage to Black Metal to Dada Vids to Satanism docs to Zizek to Balinese Gamelan to contemporary noise and on … there’s a lot going on here. | | Heroes | Theophile Gautier, Petrus Borel, Gerard de Nerval, Aloysius Bertrand, Philothée O'Neddy, Xavier Forneret, Augustus McKeat |
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DAdA, Surrealism, The Surrealists
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About me:
Before Dada... Before Punk...
there existed a gang of writers and artists who terrorized Paris in the 1830's
known as
The Bouzingo
Bouzingo Means Noise:
Freaks, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders by Todd Brooks
This is a book I've been working on since 1999. I hope to have this out finally in 2010!!
Here's a long quote from the preface of the book.
"The Bouzingo were an anti-bourgeois anarchist collective composed of writers and artists who lived and worked in Paris in the 1830's. They were notorious for pranks and rabble rousing, for brashly playing instruments that they didn't even know how to play to annoy passer-bys on the streets, for drinking wine from human skulls, and for other acts of defiance of good taste and bourgeois civility. They were also known as Le Petit Cénacle, Les Tartares, Les Frénétiques, and Les Jeunes-France. Later, in the 1840's they were instrumental in the creation of the infamous Club des Haschischins."
What is BOUZINGOISM?
The Bouzingo is the Noisemaker, the Agitator, the Rebel. The Bouzingo is the Thrill Seeker, the Libertine, the Empiricist. The Bouzingo is the Lunatic Fringe, the Eccentric, the Outsider. The Bouzingo is the Primitivist, the Improviser, the Frenetic. The Bouzingo values Enigma, Chance, the Esoteric, the Irrational. The Bouzingo ridicules Reason and revels in Absurdity in the search for Absolute Freedom. The Bouzingo is in a Perpetual State of Protest of Everything Bourgeois. The Bouzingo despises Hypocrisy and most off all... Mediocrity."
Bouzingoism is the spirit of revolution, a revolution against the ascendancy of power by the Philistine Bourgeoisie. This spirit was embodied in the “art for art’s sake” creed of Théophile Gautier, in the eccentricities and the poetry of Gérard de Nerval, by the lycanthropy and dark irony of Petrus Borel, and by those who gathered around them known as the Bouzingo. They were a decadent and radical offshoot of Romanticism and represented an unabashed pleasure in vampirism, shocking actions, and devoted to Byronic Satanism. They considered themselves a thorn in the side of the bourgeoisie meant to aggravate and irritate polite society. They roamed the streets making a scene wherever they went. They had long hair with moustaches and beards. They dressed with an air of ironic aristocracy to spite and mock the bourgeoisie. They were fanatical extremists who delved heavily in the occult, black humor, irony, dreams and nightmares, and deep imagination inspired by Cervantes from Spain, Schiller and Goethe from Germany, Lord Byron and Shelley (the “satanic poets” of English Romanticism), and Emanuel Swedenborg (the 18th century Swedish occultist). They experimented with drugs and took idealism to extremes. Although the Bouzingo have been obscured in the history of literature and art, there is no disputing their invaluable influence in the construction of Modernism. Credit to the Bouzingo can be found in writings from Baudelaire, who was directly influenced by them and later to the Surrealists. They are the forerunners, the origin of all subsequent ISMs and the beginning of Avant-Garde activity. All movements following are direct descendents of the Bouzingo legend."
- by TODD BROOKS
Members of the Bouzingo included:
Theophile Gautier
Petrus Borel
Gerard de Nerval
Aloysius Bertrand
Philothée O'Neddy
Xavier Forneret
Augustus McKeat
(Bouzingo - sometimes spelled inaccurately as: Bousingos or Bousingots)
Read more at http://www.pendu.org/artists/toddbrooks/bouzingo
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who has information to contribute or just an interest in this radical group of artists and writers. Write me at info(at)pendu.org!!!
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