lucky dragons
http://www.hawksandsparrows.org
angryclouds_k@yahoo.com
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BIOGRAPHY
"lucky dragons" are various recorded and performed pieces by Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Slipping through various contexts and identities since their birth in 2001, lucky dragons involve music and sound, video, dance, and interactive technology--performing in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY's PS1, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, and NY's The Kitchen.
These shows are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures--creating equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, to build a fragile network of digital signals connected by touching on the skin. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances--with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of over one thousand people. At the heart of it all is playing together--building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technology and live performance. It sounds--and looks--like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.
PRESS QUOTES
"Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons' live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward."
-artforum (March 2006)
"a line between the handmade and the distanced digital... ...a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments between moments"
PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Village Voice
<http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/music/archives/2007/08/no_context_summer_of_love.php>
LA Record
<http://larecord.com/blog/?p=575>
TimesSquare.Com
<http://timessquare.com/Music/Concert_Reviews/Getting_Lucky--and_Dirty--at_the_Whitney_Museum/>
BlogCritics.Org
<http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/07/27/233948.php>
Pitchfork
<http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/42212-widows>
Artforum
<http://artforum.com/diary/id=15587>
Anchorage Daily News
<http://community.adn.com/node/108284>
Identity Theory
<http://www.identitytheory.com/audio/truths_luckydragons.php>
2006
Artforum
Fowler, Brendan Top Ten March, 2006
Dusted Magazine
<http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3114>
Slightly Confusing to a Stranger
<http://www.sctas.com/21/Luckyview.html>
Not This Or That
<http://www.notthisorthat.com/sblog/index.php?/archives/94-LUCKY-DRAGONS-make-a-baby.html>
2005
San Diego Union-Tribune
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20051007-9999-1c07fest.html#>
Deli Magazine
<http://www.thedelimagazine.com/luckydragons/index.htm>
2004
Pots
<http://publish.pots.com.tw/english/ThisWeek/2004/11/29/337_17bionicmusic/index.html>
Portland Mercury
<http://personals.portlandmercury.com/2004-01-15/music2.html>