Flower Of Kairos

The Flower Of Kairos

She dropped to her knees and pulled a piece of chalk from the front pocket of her black wool coat. This was the kind of chalk sidewalk artists often use, twice as thick around as a man’s thumb. She drew a flower with eight petals and the geometry of a tesseract for a stigma. Perhaps it was subtle moisture on the faded blacktop bleeding the chalk, or something in the geometry itself, but each line seemed to blur and vibrate. “This is it, the dagger for the demiurge.” she said, rising and brushing chalk dust from the front of her jacket.

I had dreamt of this flower, golden dreams that tasted like bee’s wax and honey. I had pressed my face into its blossoms and it had smelled like the first neck I had ever tasted. The pollen was alive and swarming, the kind of infection waiting to happen that gave our ancestors mitochondria. These were the engines of kairos. This was something that used you as much as you used it. Paranoid priests feverishly dreaming of nefarious pacts signed with the devil had only been crafting metaphors for this harvest. “I’ve dreamt of this.” I said aloud at last. “I knew you would have.”

Crows called out from across the still waters of reservoir just as they had two years ago. “I have a plan” she said as the winsome echoes or the crows faded into the breeze.

The End Of The Earth

Hidden within a former shipyard, near the ruins that were once Amsterdam is the BULKHEAD. The most important place on planet Earth; the last site that remains uninfected with The FICTION...

The final remaining survivors flow into the BulkHead's safety. The place where humanity must learn to deal with the fact that its species is TERMINAL.



2 hours ago, UFOs thought to be manifested by The Fiction began appearing above the BulkHead, beaming the following message:

THE END OF THE EARTH, THE END OF THE EARTH, THE END OF THE EARTH...

Reality is being devoured by a surreal nightmare.



The Fiction has arrived.



Twenty minutes ago The Fiction, a phenomenon thought to be insentient, requested an audience with Captain L Taylor, Commanding Officer of PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS BATTALION 800 and the BulkHead.



Something calling itself 'Queen of Fiction' has an offer for Homo-Sapien....

..Immerse yourself in the immense, interconnected story manifested by FoolishPeople and over 30 visionaries and artists working together from across the world within the unique landscape of Amsterdam's NDSM-werf.



Follow living characters, absorb live transmissions from the other side of the planet, and discover the secrets, which each hold a fragment of the Terra: Extremitas myth. The surreal and beautiful experience of exploring humanity's last day on earth.


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PURCHASE TICKETS

NDSM-werf
TT Neveritaweg 15
Amsterdam-Noord
The Netherlands
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......THE BULKHEAD....Performance, Installation, Sculpture & Music....
......John Harrigan - UK - Performance Artist....
....FoolishPeople - Weaponized Art....
....Yiri T. Kohl - NL - Sequential Art & Performe......
....Maggie de Heer - NL - Sequential Art & Performer
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....Doug O'Neil - USA - Sculpture
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Philippe Garcesto - USA - Live Transmission from the Phillippines

Christian Patracchini - UK - The Infra Sensual Machine

Richard Webb - UK - Terror Management

Christina Mitrentse - UK/ Greece - Secret School

Igor - Russia - Artist

Maud Bredius - NL - Performance Artist

Gaby Santcroos - NL - Performance Artist

THE WASTELAND
Performance, Soundscapes, Art & Verse

Joseph Matheny - USA - La Ficción

James Curcio - USA - Writer & Sound Artist

Sonica Storm - UK - Wraithland

Ikipr - USA - Video & Lightwave Evocations

Teresa Donohoe - UK - The Anthem

Orryelle Defenestrate- Bascule - AUS - Writer & Artist

Michiel Mensingh - NL - Musician

Samm Hain - USA - Writer

Sahand Sahebdivani - NL - Musician

THE FICTION
Installation, Animation, Performance, Sequential Art & Nightmare Toys

FoolishPeople

Lucy Allin - UK - Performance Artist

Claire Tregellas - UK - Performance Artist

Tereza Kamenicka - UK - Performance Artist

Reinhard Schleining - UK - Artist

Jonas Ranson - UK - The Heteroclite

Ilse Versluijs - NL - Nightmare Toys

Spax - UK - Noisician

Pieter van Oudheusden - NL - Apocalyptus Anno Hodie

Maarten Gerritsen - NL - Apocalyptus Anno Hodie

Joshua Peeters - NL - Voodoo Koedoe

Alice Kok - NL - The True Story About Wolves

Albo Helm - NL - Pure Sense May Never Conquer

Peter Moerenhout - Belgium - Steam to Ashes & Wishful Thinking

Mattt Baaij - NL - Sequential Art

Stephan Brusche - NL - Sequential Art

Swahili - Belgium - Wishful Thinking