Punkvert VJs are candi’s flipped & funkcutter, a handfasted gender bemused team playing out everywhere that’s exotically grotty, glamorously misrepresented and decadently kitsch. Their visuals involve animation, cut up skulduggery and finger tingling mixing, all of which often end up as part of their hard-art exhibitions.
They have appeared regularly hosting their autonomous polysexual cabaret happenings Subterfuge (where Valentine meal’s courses are served from the sweet yet sticky bodies of their regular performers) as well as gargantuan demonstrations for the unhinged and saliently self-indulgent at unique events such as the Dragon Festival in Grenada, at home in London for the darlings of the New York Burlesque Festival Burly-Q ‘a queer cabaret’ and commissions for theatrical productions including ‘Seduction’ by Jack Heifner for Shameless Boyz and Irvine Welsh’s ‘Headstate’ for Bittersweet Theatre Company.
Resident VJs at Rock against Racism, LMHR and Unite, Punkvert have performed regularly to enthusiastic crowds for the last 3 years. These events have been a response to the apathy that has led to the BNP gaining council seats across the UK.
Punkvert have produced several audio visual pieces, notably Strip 333, screened at this year’s Portobello Film Festival and as part of an art installation at the Foundry in London. They have also completed their first audiovisual album “wising up the marks”, which was premiered at San Francisco’s ATA studio cinema. The audio track of the album is available online through their site www.punkvert.tv
Their most recent projects are more cut-up, filth art, a collaboration with Kabarett Spielraum and disco.r_dance – Bordello. Furthermore they are working on a new music project - the seminal, electronic cross-over punk rock band Anarchistwood, an AV experiment naturally.
hmmm tough one that... electro, breakz, abstract house, detroit techno, funky house, drum and bass, hardcore, oldskool, hip hop, acid house, punk rock, nursery rhymes
Current favourite tunes:
stagger factor
anarchistwood
fix me - black flag
causey way
that's jazz
All-time favourite tunes:
energy flash - joey beltram
dominator
anything by UR
boards of canada...
blue - dubkult
Records want list:
too many to mention - i got other things to spend money on :(
First record bought:
Donna Summer Gatefold Double Album - 'On the Radio' US release
Most embarrassing record:
man 2 man meets mantronix
Favourite DJs:
Paul Blackwood
Hannah Holland
Bradley Kaos
dubKULT
Favourite mix tapes / mix CDs:
wisingupthemarks - maelific jester
bradley kaos
violent moodswingers
blessed are the cracked for they let in the light
Favourite club:
my own
Best ever night out:
camping it up to tom churchill at EG '01//club UK '93?//spiral tribe in da area '91 - '92, pornoground @ turnmills 28.02.03//Sunday Night Lost Vagueness at Big Chill Aug06
Favourite night in:
UCH in bondage gear, surgical steel and lots of codeine
Men of integrity, by their existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. --John W. Gardner
