PERFORMANCE/CONTEXT
PERFORMANCE/CONTEXTDiscoteca Flaming Star is an interdisciplinary artistic and collaborative performance project, a rock band, or rather, a group of persons that plays songs, understanding them as a personal responseto political, social and historical events.
Through conceptual and musical transformations of/in/around the songs they try to create visuals,text scenographies and a musical frame in which one of the main aims is to challenge the memory of the audience: moving it into unexpected collective and individual memory-territories. A memory for something in the future, for something that has not happened yet and maybe never will. Through the old that has not happened, the new is interrogated.They are irreverent, dissolute fans exploiting their own knowledge and lack thereof, staging the desire to be on stage and showing off. Inspired by Anita Berber, Warhol’s Wig, Ghosts, Rita McBride’s Arena, Gregg Bordowitz, Mary Shelley, Karl Valentin & Lisl Karlstadt, the Vienna Group, Alvaro, Joey Arias and Raven O, they have called the outcome of what they do “hardcore karaoke”. Discoteca Flaming Star presents songs about love, consumption, fervor and feminism. Belly-dancing, tearjerkers, wonderfully bad songs and things that go together, even though they shouldn’t. Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer work since 1998 as the foundation of Discoteca Flaming Star.