//21.Juli 2007 / 19.00 Uhr

//ALBUM

//Catriona Shaw: Filmscreening & Performance als Miss le bomb

Statement about the video piece:

"Album" is a nine-track video piece by Catriona Shaw (who also goes by the pseudonym of Miss le Bomb). She has created a visual alternative to an album, a collection of song-length, deconstructed narratives which can be watched either as separate tracks, in default order or 'shuffled' at the viewers discretion.

The themes of each track are inspired by Shaw's career as an undergound pop artist and the implications and experiences of such a career choice. Nine different actors all play Shaw in different scenarios, such as; the pop musician in private, ambition, fame and paranoia, the positive and negative effects of pop stardom... Humourous, abstract, romantic and bizarre, each track is also intended to mirror the music of Miss le Bomb, both in production style and content.

For the presentation of the film, Shaw/Miss le Bomb will perform a live soundtrack culminating in a concert.

Bio:

Miss le bomb aka Catriona Shaw has gone solo after playing on the underground electropop circuit for almost eight years under various spooky guises - lead singer of Queen of Japan, founding member of infamous Munich-based punk club Club le Bomb and artist she has collaborated with many different musicians and performers over the years including Electronicat, Gerhard Potuznik, Isabel Reiss, Hans Platzgumer, Kamerakino, Bulent Kullukcu and more.

A talented visual artist, Catriona Shaw translates her personal observations about art and popular culture into sketches, videos, and music. Her comic-like narratives arise spontaneously, as though they were diary entries in response to her surroundings. Stories about life and death, characters from the pop or art world, and animals who play human roles reflect her socially critical but usually also humorous thoughts. She also designs, illustrates and does 'drawing installations' trying to push the boundaries of the genre to the limit, more recently where her drawings were utilised as storyboards for short films.