Gordon W.

Gordon W.

Gordon W. (born December 23, 1954 in Hamilton ; real name: Gordon Wojcickowski , in Canada formerly also known as Gordon W. Zealot) is a Canadian cooking, performance and music artist.

Life

As a teenager in the 1970s, Gordon W. was expelled from school after he and a friend from school recited Tristan Tzara's Dada poems at a music evening and hacked the stage with axes. He then emigrated to India, studied Hinduism, Indian cuisine and the tabla drum playing in ashrams . Back in Canada , he joined Neoism in the early 1980s , co-organized the 4th Neoist Apartment Festival (APT) in Toronto and participated in most of the Neoist festivals until 2004. Among other things, he made chapatito official Neoist food and introduced free haircuts as a ritual of Neoist events. As a (music) performance artist, he occasionally worked with Jack Smith and Tony Conrad .

Gordon W. has lived and worked in Berlin since the early 1990s , runs the small restaurant "W" (the logo of which is an upside-down McDonald’s - "M") and plays in the parodic easy-listening band Fuzzy Love . Before that he played in the ensemble of the Fluxus artist Henning Christiansen . He appeared as a cooking performance artist at the Ars Electronica in 1996 and 2004 and at the Volksbühne in Berlin . He works closely with the Canadian artist Laura Kikauka and the Canadian artist and composer Gordon Monahan , who both also lived in Berlin for many years. In 2005/2006 he appeared as a percussionist and theremin player in "Sanctuary", a project by Alexander Hacke (bassist of the Einstürzende Neubauten ).

literature

• Oliver Marchart : Neoismus , p. 21 ff, Edition Selene, Klagenfurt - Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85266-038-6

Web links

• ars electronica page about Gordon W. ( Memento from February 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Article about Gordon W. from the Berliner Tagesspiegel ( Memento from May 7, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
• Article on Gordon W. von Arte
• New York Village Voice article on Neoism and Gordon W.