Launch Night performance
5-10pm 21 October 2011

Unit 11, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RT

Come and go in the main space during the evening
Entrance procedure for inner performance space
Follow us on
tools-and-principles.blogspot.com
during the rest of the festival

There has always been and will always be Samekhmem.
Seek not to understand the birth of Samekhmem.
True comprehension of this is beyond regular thought.
Place your mind, instead, in the center of the universe and allow yourself to dwell in the infinite.
When you know Samekhmem, you will realise that you have always known
Samekhmem.
This truth extends beyond all imaginable constraints.
You will know the eternal message of Samekhmem.
It has always been heard by you and you will always be part of it.

Samkhmem are performers of the Sacred Eternal Drone – a perpetual vibration that has always been and will always continue.

They protect the Ark of Silence, the source of un-sound that creates space for the Sacred Eternal Drone to flow continuously through time.

By participating in the sacrament, a rite of separation, the congregation enter into the collective mystery of the Sacred Eternal Drone. Samekhmem offer a meditative environment for the audience’s inner journey, before words, before music.

At any point in time, there is a group of people who become Samekhmem to perform the Sacred Eternal Drone. By using ‘remote listening’, fans can experience past and future Samekhmem performances, which exist in flux between eternal duration and linear time.

View the future-viewing, participatory fan blog here
http://tools-and-principles.blogspot.com/

and email your remote listening experiences to
tools.and.principles@gmail.com

AAS Statement

The letters AAS do not stand for anything: they should be pronounced as a word.

There is a core group of artists, but they are not AAS. One becomes part of AAS during a project.

AAS is a self-producing artwork, creating itself through performance fictions and collective consciousness.

Our work is future-orientated and is developed through symbolic activity, often drawing upon coincidence and chance as forms of divination. We aim to discover and produce new, alternate readings of reality that we encounter together.

We use familiar ritual structures and music to bring people to the appropriate state of mind, but these require no subscription to any prior belief structures. Participants share a communal sacrament that is both transient and eternal, based on immediate responses and an ongoing desire to commit to the future.