Dracula Lewis/Out4Pizza
U$e Your Illu$ion$
sound & visual performance, italian première

Dracula Lewis - sounds and voice- and Out4pizza-gif animation-, a duo that has worked from a distance, is physically coming together for the first time in Bologna to present U$e Your Illu$ion$. This title that mistakenly evokes an imaginary deviant glamour, present and absent in Dracula Lewis’ way of working, with quite a taste for concealment and false leads. Dracula Lewis’ live works incorporate an abundance of pop materials, evoking, in manner and tone, a protagonist in decline. The material is total fantasy, sometimes very dark, at times shimmering, a play of light and shadow. The executional structure, very simple, mixers, sound samples and vocals used in short very dry sessions, and re-evoking the song form, together with the gif animations of Laura Brothers (Out4Pizza), form an estranged sequence-show that exudes emptiness in the middle of the density of stylistic and imaginary references. If overall there is a prevailing sense of an authentic discovery of dubbing and its current global percolation, in fact it is as if we were still facing a punk attitude that, having abandoned bass and guitar, adopts sampling and digital data for re-enacting the old game of desecration and neglect. Of course there is another awareness, historical as well as part of the repertoire, educated and disenchanted, that belongs to this generation.

friday 19 april  > 9 pm >  MAMbo