FASTWURMS - ISI Scotland

The 'Ice Station Isis' fiction exists in a world where the biggest political and military superpower is dominated by irrational fundamentalist conservatives that are determined to exterminate all 'other' irrational fundamentalist fanatics from the face of the earth. There is only one way.

Science - cosmology, geology, evolutionary biology- overwhelmingly contradict the creationist belief structures of the dominant political/religious party. The 2005 Pew Research Center poll has 60% of Republicans declared creationists, and 70 percent of evangelical Christians believing that human beings have always existed in their present form. Picture a Planet of the Apes and Omega Man mash up with an NRA Terminator II subtext.

The hollow tropes of the cold war have been co-opted by Bible belt paranoia, and the crusade against terror is the new script for "end of days" apocalypse now family values and police state policy.

In opposition to the perverse pathology of fundamentalist violence, Witchcraft seems a refuge of nature, of enlightened thought, rational discourse and the practice of peaceful coexistence.

'Ice Station Isis' is preoccupied with Witchcraft positivity and the pragmatics of the periphery, the star qualities of minor characters and the poetics of alienated labour.

The exchange imperatives of capitalism are condensed into one abstract super commodity: Paisley Powder. The 'powder' seems to represents all the sinister product connotations and profit potentials of drugs/bombs/ unlimited fuel. The spice must flow.

The relational characters of 'Ice Station Isis' all share vaguely scientific- corporate industrial- para- military uniforms and operate with the nonchalant institutional urgency of b-movie flunkies', button- pushing technocrats and low level security functionaries.

The extraordinary extra is important to the subversive class politics of 'Ice Station Isis'. Ninja #11 and Zombie #23 demographics are vital to product placement decisions and media marketing plans.

FASTWURMS 2006

Thanks to: Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), Lumsden
ISI Spice Crew: Trevor Gordon, Kate Davis, Rebecca Lindsay,
Ginny Hutchison

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[etafly]

the powder is most likely plaster.

[rhymepays]

Stolen soundtrack from The Shining!!!

[tessabianca]

Strange but interesting. I wonder what the man with the flour sifter was actually sifting. Was that a real factory? What is the factory for in real life? I like the material. I'd like to see more.