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LARY LITT
HATE BOOKS | HOLY FIRES | SHAMAN RITUAL
Performance 13.08.11 at 20:00
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch
ABOUT:
Larry Litt is a New York based mixed ritual spoken word artist and activist who produces videos and photos of his performances. Larry Litt has exhibited videos and performed in the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Apokalypsa Festival, White Box NY, Holly Solomon Gallery, many college and university galleries and museums. He is currently represented by Magnan Metz Gallery in Chelsea, NY. He is producer with Eleanor Heartney of the highly acclaimed “The Blame Show” videos and cable televison series. In early March 2007 Larry Litt performed “Hate Books—Holy Fires” at the 2nd Moscow Biennale in a Special Program. Momentum is fortunate to host Larry Litt’s incendiary performance in Berlin – the very site it references and, through a ritual purification, seeks to absolve.
Hate Books—Holy Fires is a Ritual Burning of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This event shows the nefarious history and current life of the infamous fraudulent forgery, Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This book, which claims there’s a Jewish/Zionist conspiracy to rule the world, is still translated, published and distributed around the world. Several examples will be ritually burned to empower overcoming anti-Jewish plots and expel evil spirits from the plotters. “Symbolically burning Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” says Litt, “is a step towards publicly condemning the horrendous damage this book has done, and is still doing, since it’s first publication in early 20th century Czarist Russia.”
“I want to show the history of book burning as a way conquerors change culture to suit their needs,” Litt continues. “I don’t agree with book burning at all, however burning the Protocols is my way of attacking the lies that perpetuated the World War II Jewish Holocaust. Today its publication continues in many new translations.
Will it ever end? I want to make the world aware that these lies about Jews are the work of governments and people who themselves want to rule the world. They use the Protocols as their model, then blame the Jewish Conspiracy as a distraction from their own greed, policies and practices. These books have created Fires From Hell for millions of people, for hundreds of years. They come from all over the world, wherever evil is spread by loathsome, hate mongering propagandists. Their flaming, ritualistic destruction is my personal, universal and cosmic purification goal.”
The talismans created for this show are based on kabalistic designs from the Keys of Solomon, a magical book reputed to have been written by biblical King Solomon. Larry Litt’s Hate Book—Holy Fires performances are in the tradition of St. Paul, St. Boniface, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, ancient Chinese Emperors, the Cultural Revolution, German university students in 1933 and fascist anti-Semites throughout history and worldwide. Larry Litt maintains. “The books I symbolically burn are representative of great social and political evil. They do not deserve to survive. They sicken, repulse and anger me. They have done, and still do, incredible damage to clear thinking, civil humanity. So much so that I have condemned them to burn. Not something I do lightly as I, of course, respect books and writers.”
Using chant, percussion and shamanic poetry, the HATE BOOKS-HOLY FIRES ritual performance dramatically recreates the sacrificial experience of book burning throughout history. Only this time it is the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Hate Book” that burns. Audience are invited to symbolically burn the Protocols with Litt during the Hate Books-Holy Fires performance ritual. The performance is documented with photos and video, and numbered by the artist.
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