The Assembly

The theme of ‘The Assembly’ is loosely associated with the situation of the Hobo world in Brendan's story of the Musterd Man. The performance is an interaction between three entities in a triangle of conflict and suspicion, which will end up in the satisfaction of all three people through a process of discovery which cannot be made without each of the three people which are originally at odds. Therefore each character in the performance inspires one another in some unlikely way, and there is catharsis.
Brendan Coyle is the Unicorn
David Rodgers is Paddock
Krzystof Zarebski is the Shaman or Alchemist

Krzystof is basically his own classic character who uses the pieces of records and record players in roundabout and pragmatically futile ways. The character resembles a shaman, which in the Hobo world, would be known as an Alchemist. He is generally lost in the cosmos, and only vaguely acknowledges the physical world and its inhabitants. It is thought by the other characters that he holds some power of escape into netherworlds that is valuable because the world is in a horrible state of decay, the Landfill State, Hobo City.

David is associated with the character Paddock another Hobo genius, who is the opposite of the Shaman because rather than escaping the world he intends to find a way to improve it, he intends to learn the true meaning of the records and record player parts to learn about recorded history. In learning the reason behind the failure and decay of their world, he believes he will find a way to restore the world. This character is an appropriation of David’s original performance persona to the Hobo Paddock.

Brendan is the Unicorn or The Musterd Vampire, a very ambiguous middleman or obstacle in the trio. The Unicorn is the scheming apprentice to the Shaman. He acts as a leech by trying to harness the power that the Shaman is associated with through his single horn, rather like a lightning rod. The parasitic cycle is completed by the Unicorn’s gong, which is a spinning record wheel banged with a knife. The sound of the gong keeps the Shaman in a trance state without letting him slip off into oblivion, which would result in a catatonic Shaman. The Unicorn’s conflict with Paddock is that he is slightly paranoid that he would be able to take the Shaman away from him with a new variation of record parts, and thwart his plans to learn the power.

IMPORTANT:
The Performance itself is an illustration of these relationships but does not end up making them absolutely apparent. The performance is to be enjoyed as an abstraction or as a symbolic dream experience.

			The Assembly With Brendan Coyle David Rodgers Krzystof Zarebski
		The theme of ‘The Assembly’ is loosely associated with the situation of the Hobo world in Brendan's story of the Musterd Man. The performance is an interaction between three entities in a triangle of conflict and suspicion, which will end up in the satisfaction of all three people through a process of discovery which cannot be made without each of the three people which are originally at odds. Therefore each character in the performance inspires one another in some unlikely way, and there is catharsis. Brendan Coyle is the Unicorn David Rodgers is Paddock Krzystof Zarebski is the Shaman or Alchemist Krzystof is basically his own classic character who uses the pieces of records and record players in roundabout and pragmatically futile ways. The character resembles a shaman, which in the Hobo world, would be known as an Alchemist. He is generally lost in the cosmos, and only vaguely acknowledges the physical world and its inhabitants. It is thought by the other characters that he holds some power of escape into netherworlds that is valuable because the world is in a horrible state of decay, the Landfill State, Hobo City. David is associated with the character Paddock another Hobo genius, who is the opposite of the Shaman because rather than escaping the world he intends to find a way to improve it, he intends to learn the true meaning of the records and record player parts to learn about recorded history. In learning the reason behind the failure and decay of their world, he believes he will find a way to restore the world. This character is an appropriation of David’s original performance persona to the Hobo Paddock. Brendan is the Unicorn or The Musterd Vampire, a very ambiguous middleman or obstacle in the trio. The Unicorn is the scheming apprentice to the Shaman. He acts as a leech by trying to harness the power that the Shaman is associated with through his single horn, rather like a lightning rod. The parasitic cycle is completed by the Unicorn’s gong, which is a spinning record wheel banged with a knife. The sound of the gong keeps the Shaman in a trance state without letting him slip off into oblivion, which would result in a catatonic Shaman. The Unicorn’s conflict with Paddock is that he is slightly paranoid that he would be able to take the Shaman away from him with a new variation of record parts, and thwart his plans to learn the power. IMPORTANT: The Performance itself is an illustration of these relationships but does not end up making them absolutely apparent. The performance is to be enjoyed as an abstraction or as a symbolic dream experience.
Illustration by Brendan Coyle Photo by Michael Stewart



				The first occurrence of this performance happened on March 7th of 2004 at Fusion Arts Museum @ 57 Stanton St. in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Soundtrack by Joel Guilbert Stay connected to hear about future show dates. More visual documentation of the performance will be arriving soon.
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