"We're not telling you. That's what we are doing, really, telling another kind of story. We were both using elements of the past to say something new and vibrant. What I noticed early on is that they are both producers of a kind. It will not be like any other gig that you have experienced, that's for sure. They take different elements and meld them together, visually and sonically. Images of a grinning Putin soundtracked by nuclear activity and The Sugababes' Push The Button are the only real cliche, but his much-repeated theory of a "managed world" starts to become dulled by familiarity. Curtis's collage of archive films are blown up on to enormous translucent screens on three of the four walls, with Massive Attack both obliterated … "What we are saying is: come into this enchanting two-dimensional world that we have created, but by the time you leave, you will have hopefully realised that it is not just enchanting but a prison. First published on Sat 29 Jun 2013 19.05 EDT. Massive storm through the Jesus And Mary Chain's Just Like Honey to the accompaniment of Jane Fonda's fitness video. Images hurtle from the walls – Ceausescu, Soviet mental-health patients, Afghanistan, Bambi – the whole thing so disorienting that you would not want to be stumbling around in stilettos. ", Curtis's targets include the western elites, who want the existing power structures to remain in place, modern technocrats and both the left and the liberal media for their inability to suggest a viable alternative, even in the wake of the financial collapse of 2008. Using his trademark collages of clips, Curtis began by suggesting that utopian dreams in the US and USSR of changing the world for the better fell apart in the 1970s. Their soundtrack often involved rumbling, rib-rattling bass, and the only recognisable Massive Attack song was what they described as a cover version of the Portishead remix of Karmacoma. Its working title, borrowed from a Russian protest song of the 1980s, is Everything Is Going According to Plan. Audience member Matt Edgar said it was "probably like nothing you've ever experienced before". And I loved the volume and the intensity of the music, because you felt it. He went on to argue that politicians, economists and the media instead tried to ensure a safe and stable world by creating a fragile version of reality in which people were made to be terrified of risk, and data was used to predict and control behaviour. One exits, perhaps looking at the world around in a slightly different way – but grateful for those earplugs. It merged sampled beats, a definably British rap style and a stirring soul vocal into a radical musical collage that resonates throughout pop music to this day. Crowd members have been warned not to wear their "best, light coloured, dry-clean only outfit or any easily stained fabrics" because they may get splattered by the mud that is used on stage. That is what is truly amazing about the modern system – the way that it appropriates everything with ease. A documentary screening in a derelict train depot, with live music from Massive Attack, has opened the Manchester International Festival. US actor Willem Dafoe is starring with former ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in a play based on an absurd Russian novella, while Mercury Prize-winning band The xx are playing a residency of 18 gigs to just 60 fans at a time. Curtis sees this increasingly managed society as an extension of "a deeply conservative ideology that says it is deeply dangerous to try and change the world and thus makes us afraid of moving forward into an uncertain, but possibly better, future". "It concerns the rise of the modern ideology that we now live in, which is essentially managerial. All rights reserved. That's what his films did for me and that's what we both want this project to do for everyone who comes and sees it. "We are exploring a subject that has long interested us both and that we have been talking about, on and off, for two years," says Curtis, whose vision is driving the project, at least until Massive Attack step on to the stage. We want to sit here and say, what do you think?". How, though, will Curtis and 3D avoid becoming an example of the very thing they are critiquing – another staged spectacle in which style triumphs over content and everyone goes home quite contented? I meet them both in the lobby of Conway Hall, the headquarters of the Ethical Society, and we settle in a drably functional back room there. It's not really what someone like me, who was so informed by the politics of punk, wanted to ever become. They are all predicting the future through the data they collect on us, and which they then use as evidence to protect us from a future of risk. In the worldview of Curtis – known for his documentaries The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares – technocrats and global corporations have established an ultra-conservative norm, which is meekly accepted by the millions affected by it. An art exhibition titled Do It is based on written instructions left by artists for other artists and visitors to fulfil. As well as the arts programme, the festival is also supporting The Biospheric Project, a scheme to turn a disused Salford mill into an urban agricultural hub that is investigating new ways of growing food. Billed simply as Massive Attack v Adam Curtis, in the manner of an old school reggae or hip-hop sound system clash, the multimedia performance, which Curtis calls a … Billed as a hybrid between a gig and a movie, a team including regular Massive collaborators United Visual Artists, Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett and stage designer Es Devlin have created a barrage of sound and reportage. In that process, anything can be used to mean anything just by cutting and juxtaposing. Billed simply as Massive Attack v Adam Curtis, in the manner of an old school reggae or hip-hop sound system clash, the multimedia performance, which Curtis calls a "gilm" – a cross between a gig and a film – will elaborate on these arguments, both conceptually and in terms of the narrative arc of his latest film. .css-8h1dth-Link{font-family:ReithSans,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:700;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;color:#FFFFFF;}.css-8h1dth-Link:hover,.css-8h1dth-Link:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}Read about our approach to external linking. It is applied to images, numbers, advertising. What we are saying is that we are guilty to a degree, too, but we are also offering an alternative way out. Another play, titled The Machine, examines the ground-breaking chess battle between Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Blue in 1997 and is being staged by Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke. It is clear that he aims to surprise and provoke on a grand scale. .css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link{color:inherit;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:focus,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:focus{color:#B80000;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link::after,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited::after{content:'';position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;z-index:2;}Massive Attack and Adam Curtis create 'new type of gig', Mikhail Baryshnikov back on stage with Willem Dafoe, Sir John Tavener on religion and ill health, Manchester International Festival cancel Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Machine: Stage set for Kasparov v Deep Blue chess thriller, Maxine Peake for Manchester International Festival, 'Milestone' vaccine offers 90% Covid protection. This may be the first time concertgoers have been advised to wear earplugs and instructed, "sensible footwear must be worn for this event". Increasingly, as a performer, whether on stage or in a press interview or on a TV show, you are just participating in a system that is essentially about entertaining, but never changing anything. From working with Adam, I have realised that what was missing was a narrative of some kind that brought people in and made them see things differently or helped join the dots about the world we live in. The 18-day festival also features Sir Kenneth Branagh playing Macbeth for the first time, and new plays starring Willem Dafoe and Maxine Peake. Video, Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection, US election: World leaders who haven't congratulated Biden, Mother bear and cub shot after climbing onto Russian nuclear submarine, Two killed as Russian military helicopter downed in Armenia, Militant Islamists 'behead more than 50' in Mozambique, Parler 'free speech' app tops charts in wake of Trump defeat, US election: Biden urges mask-wearing to save 'thousands of lives', US election: Champ, Major and other White House pets, 'Mutant coronavirus' seen before on mink farms, say scientists. At Mayfield Depot, Curtis' film wove archive footage of figures from Jane Fonda to Osama Bin Laden into a theory about how the public perception of reality can be manipulated. Video. "I have to say that, for a long time, our live shows, however much we tried to make them about the here and now, always lacked something for me. Shown on 11 giant screens, the latest film by director Adam… "As soon as 3D mentioned that he would like to work with Adam in 2009," he says, "it seemed to me like the most obvious choice for a new kind of exciting and politically engaged live event.
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