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Lupus:

'As the plague gave rise to an unprecedented surge in technologies relating to surveillance capitalism, we found our pocket of resistance in a precarious position. With our expeditions along the River Styx no longer offering viable gathering sites, we turned our attention to the possibility of entering one of the sprawling web of underground lairs hidden across the city. 

A chance meeting in which two societies became one, occurred on a winter night in the shadows of a Metropolitan Police breeding ground. A plot was made for us to enter the doorway to the The Dungeon of Polymorpheus Pan and thus The Judgement Hall X Chronic Illness allegiance was formed across three legendary events.'


Fung:

'Chronic Illness sewage hadn't ever ceased to operate during Covid lockdowns of London. After a series of educational bdsm screenings orchestrated as immersive video installations produced throughout 2020 at the Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan, our performers decided to open the space for an unholy marriage with the lunatic cult congregating around the The Judgement Hall post-industrial music platform. During the first half of 2021 Chronic Illness involved about a hundred of carefully selected followers of The Judgement Hall in a trilogy of performances, conceptualized as theatre of plague. Each of three acts presented a different take on the theme directed by Aliceex & Fung Neo - each act respectively celebrated with 12+ hours of subterranean soundscapes composed by the The Judgement Hall residents.

'Plague Play Plague' referenced the prohibition of theatre during London Black Death through ritualistic procession informed by Artaudian obsession with contagion as theatrical formula. Continuing the risky play, 'Game of Plague' engaged with a simulation of pandemic, visualized through computer game interface projected onto performers' bodies and intersected by lines of infectious conspiracy which repeated gestural vectors from Zulawski's lice cinema. Finally, 'Balcony' returned to the sadomasochism of judgement and punishment by staging a scene from Genet's play of fetishistic coping mechanisms in reaction to the crisis of humanity and social unrest. Thus, The Judgement Hall X Chronic Illness formed a lockdown triad of events, bonding the collaboration by the original live score for Chronic Illness performances by Trojanovskx, transformed into EP on The Judgement Hall Records coming out now.'