Resident 21: JEREMY SHAW Resident 7: MICHELE DI MENNA I Am a Laser, Scream Like a Baby Freitag 16. April 2010 20 - 0h Samstag 17. April 2010 19 - 23h         The first joint residency welcomes back resident number 7, Michele Di Menna, and introduces Canadian artist/musician Jeremy Shaw. The result is `I am a Laser Scream like a Baby’, 2 performances over 2 days, and disco fun! Jeremy Shaw performs a lecture. It begins with a presentation on absurdly complex laser technology and culminates in a Bowie-inspired concert and laser show. The audience is both witness and victim to the manipulative psychological twist orchestrated by laser beams, music and the mental processing of information. Later in the evening, as the lasers die down, we watch Wizard Of Oz (1939). Instead of its original soundtrack, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (1973) accompanies the film. According to urban myth, the album was written whilst the band was watching the movie.   Day 2 of the residency, Michele Di Menna is back at Caribic! We keep knocking at her door. When will she start? Then.. Drilling, framing, smoking, clinking glasses. We witness the swift and elegant construction of a frame, accompanied by an awkward soundtrack of hammering, piercing, screeching sounds. The audience is challenged to accept the division, the rules of the performer, performing what? Frame over frame over frame, we loose ourselves in compelling visuals, shapes and colours with aesthetic proposals, framing a tautological framing of a frame. And pause. Back