purge.xxx #38 - COLLAPSE by Keira Fox, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Vindicatrix

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.

Keira Fox, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Vindicatrix present a new collaboration in COLLAPSE: the soundtrack to an escalating 3-act play set across multiple timelines (BC, industrial, merchandised), drawing on a site-specific project originally commissioned by Cripta 747 Torino and presented at Saint Pietro in Vincoli Cemetery.

‘The piece coalesces trans-temporal sites of city collapse from The Casa Delle Donne’s occupation of a historic women’s mental asylum, the Fiat Factory and the workers strikes of the 60s, to murderous 1970s shopping departments, and garage disappointments.’

Numbered & handmade in an edition of 50 copies with on-body screen print and eco-x slip; each copy contains three riso-printed cigarette cards.

COLLAPSE was launched on September 21 at St George-in-the-East Church, London E1, where Anne Gillis also performed.