[trash worship/venerazione dei rifiuti] 20 April 2007 - Bologna, Italy : infamous action of audience destruction, the last Massaccesi action before transition #4. photos by ODRZ.
[trash worship/venerazione dei rifiuti] 15 April 2007 - Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. photos by ODRZ.
[trash worship] 14 Apr. 2007 - Ljubljana, Slovenija. photos by ODRZ.
[how to make conceptual art on canvas] 23 Feb. 2007 - Dover, NH, USA : performance as part of the John & John exhibition.
[trasha'ween/requiem for the flatts + inflatable love/love of inflatables] 29 + 04 Oct. 2006 - Portsmouth, NH, USA : photos by T. Fife.
[müllstadt] 27 April 2006- Sofia, Bulgaria : the only proper photos of the Müllstadt performances. An all-beverage Müllstadt! Photos by Toni Dimitrov.
[refugee crisis] various Europe 2005 : a selection of photos from the 2005 tour highlighting the crisis of waste & refugee camps.
03 Mar. 2005 -
Amsterdam, NL
08 Mar. 2005 -
Antwerp, BEL
05 Mar. 2005 - Rotterdam, NL
07 Mar. 2005 -Tienen, BEL
18 Mar. 2005 - Milan, IT
20 Mar. 2005 - Graz, AUT
01 Apr. 2005 - Porto, PT
14 Mar. 2005 - Malmö, SWE
[where's chicken?] 10 Feb./2 Feb./29 Jan. 2004 - 3 shows highlighting the sudden disappearance of Chicken in Greece (Monkey did all the shows solo while Chicken bounced around the islands..).
10 Feb. 2004 - Athens, Greece
where's chicken? tour costume..
29 Jan. 2004 - Skopje, Macedonia
02 Feb. 2004 - Berlin, Germany
[eradicating the jewel case] 8 Nov. 2003 - Barcelona, Spain Photos by Christian Berggen
[trash worship/venerazione dei rifiuti] 3 actions executed in Italy & Slovenija. These were some of my last in a more "concert" style format which I am still trying to get away from. These actions revolved around the idea of worshipping trash as if they were sacred objects. Chicken & Monkey would throw trash at me from their little tent and I would re-arrange them into a sacred formation and then worship them. Each performance I executed various ritualistic hand gestures & physical exercises
[how to make conceptual art on canvas] C&M threw various objects at me and I attempted to paint with them on a blank canvas, yet was constantly coming up with what seemed to be nothing. At the end I revealed I was in fact making conceptual art based on the leftover auras of the various objects I was using to "paint" with.
[trash/requiem/inflatables] 2 performances devoted to trash, inflatables and the spirit of making performances within the context of a regular house transformed into a youth art dumpster.
[müllstadt] a series of performances executed on a tour of Europe in 2006, featuring installations set up for each show of a city made up of various types of packaging-trash. More in-depth pictures of the installations are here. I managed to get more video documentation than photo-documentation.
[eradicating the jewel case] I completely HATE CD jewel cases. It's a complete shame that they are still the most common way to house CD's. In this action I excuted a simple, slightly cliché destrction of jewel cases with a hammer, interspersed with boughts of yelling & meditating. C&M played around with pieces from the destroyed cases. Sadly, I had to throw away the mess I made, but the trash is where they would have had to end up anyway.
A performance from Massaccesi (or John Fanning) usually revolves around the concept of highlighting, vilifying, redefining or celebrating waste, language, geography, tension, confusion, real life problems in surreal settings & the like. Performing along with me are my closest friends Chicken & Monkey who, without making a sound, help me out or sometimes ignore me all together. Each performance has a central theme of disruptive, chaotic & meditative sound and actions.
[c&m und der durian] 21 Dec 2007 - Graz, Austria
[c&m und der durian] The theme for the Interpenetration Festival in Graz was durians. I explored this theme with a chicken & monkey film (since they could not make it live) & my own surprises I found under a fake plastic-bag "durian".
[schoggi-schtooss + other lovely examples of schweizerdeutsch ] 14 May 2008 - Portsmouth, NH, US
[schoggi-schtooss ... ] To celebrate Swiss actionist & sweetheart Sudden Infant's performance at ellO gallery, I decided to give a small lesson in charming Swiss slang as his warm up act. Chicken & Monkey joined me for their first live support in a while, everyone enjoyed thoroughly and learned important things..