12.09 (Friday), St. John’s Centre, 7.00 pm, free entrance

Travel. Big picture small frame (…). Symbol and synecdoche, sign and signification, all at once, the digital codes become a reflection, a mirror permutation of the nation…. Where to go? What to do to get there?

DJ Spooky is an experimenter, pioneer of ambient music, who also creates dub, jazz, hip-hop and techno. He is a laureate of prestigious artistic prizes (e. g. Camera D’Or at The Cannes Festival, or Sundance Film Festival), author of audiovisual projects that comment some of the modern world’s problems (e. g. intercultural communication, globalisation, global warming), postmodernistic poet, author of texts published in  such magazines as “The Village Voice”, “The Source”, “Rap Pages”, “ Paper Magazine”.

His production proves that being a DJ is a real art and behind the use of electronics, digital codes and signs lies a coherent philosophy and concrete message.

At the Festival, DJ Spooky will present one of his most famous works – an audiovisual remix, called by some a multimedia performance– “Rebirth of a Nation”, dated 2004.

The project is based on one of the most popular silent movies, D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”, dated 1915 and still controversial due to its contents, where superiority of white race is preached and Ku Klux Klan’s actions are glorified. In „Rebirth of a Nation”, digitally modified scenes from the Griffith’s movie are combined with recorded performances of modern African artists – mostly musicians and dancers. “Rebirth of a Nation” is a contemporary comment on ever-present racial misunderstandings and conflicts.

www.myspace.com/djspooky