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»OPERATION SHITSTROM«
It started in 2003 out of total disillusionment, when the White House increasingly employed Fascist-esque irrational propaganda and media coverage of the war in Iraq resembled B-slasher flicks. In midst of this political zeitgeist, the six founding artists Marc Grubstein, Brock Enright, Steve Johnson, Daniel Joseph, Chad Spicer and David Henry Brown Jr. collaborated to form the Fantastic Nobodies.

For their performances these characters infiltrate existing social situations and public events or create their own situations to set up a stage. These two approaches are used in order to create a total breakdown of existing social barriers between performer and audience. The arsenal of their weapons reaches from subtle to brutal humor, biting satire, anarchistic actions to dadaistic nonsense.

Their actions reflect and unmask the social and political state of the american society, most often representative for the western hemisphere. The declared aim is to free the individual imagination from propagandistic media alienation.
Photography, polaroids and video record the actions. Oral tradition documents off-camera moments by creating legends that people who witness the actions pass on.

For OPERATION SHITSTORM the Fantastic Nobodies once more invade Berlin on multiple fronts. The main stage is brot.undspiele galerie in Gartenstr. 2.
As an additional field of experiment the Westberlin Gallery is opening from Tue – Sat from 4 – 7 pm in Brunnenstr. 56 (U8 in between Bernauer und Volta Str.). Beside that, countless spontaneous performances and actions will happen all around the city and multiple collaborations with berlin artists and mucisians are in development.

Find more informations and links at www.fantasticnobodies.com