Zort Zol Live

In 2006 Zarathustra's Uncle, aka Henrik Vestergaard Friis, began his artistic
examination of the Danish Cultural Canon. This official list, commissioned by the
Danish Cultural Minister, contains the 96 greatest works of Danish culture ever. They
have enriched and influenced artists and audiences all over the world. The canon for
performing arts contains twelve performances, dramas and ballets.


He has now completed/reconstructed the twelve works. 'Black Sun Live, Carlton and Wurst' by Sort Sol in 1987-1988 was performed 28th of November 2009 at Warehouse 9. The reconstruction was formed as a short compact concert performed by Jörn J. Burmester and Henrik Vestergaard Friis.

The performance is based on one of the stranger elements of the canon for
performing arts: A series of concerts the infamous first Danish punk band Sort Sol
gave in Copenhagen at the venues "Carlton" and "Wurst" in 1987 and 1988. The
concerts were included into the canon for their impressive staging of self destructive
and violent behavior, which, as the explanation by the canon committee goes, was
typical for the early eighties in Denmark.

Zarathustra's Onkel does not make re-enactments, so neither detail nor precision is central to the work. The examination attempts to pinpoint the core of the work and reconstruct it with suitable contemporary artistic strategies. For each work he chooses the particular contemporary strategy, which seems to express the core of the work in question.
Please consult www.zonkel.com for more info.

To reconstruct Sort Sol's staging of self destructive and violent behavior,
Zarathustra's Uncle has chosen the tracks "Boy girl" from the album "Dagger &
Guitar" and "Shapes of summer" from "Everything that rises must converge". The
reconstruction combines the destructive methods of boxing and contemporary noise
music. Zort Zol Live 2009 is all about the Uncle's confrontation with the specific
Danishness of what may amount to be the punkiest work in the canon.

Jörn J. Burmester and Henrik Vestergaard Friis have performed as "Das Prinzip" at Bar 25 Berlin and as "Die kleinen Pisser" at HAU Berlin. Their Electro-acoustic epic disco sound is beyond punk and new romantic.

The Video is a short edit of there first track "Boy girl". The secound track "Shapes of summer" can be heard in its full leangh on www.myspace.com/dasprinzipdasprinzip

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