Jean Baudrillard & The Chance Band — Suicide Moi

CD with original jewel case and printed insert. Compound Annex Records, Los Angeles, 2002. 14 × 12 cm. Factory sealed.

Suicide Moi documents a live collaboration between French theorist Jean Baudrillard and The Chance Band, recorded during the Chance Festival at Whiskey Pete's Casino in Stateline, Nevada, in November 1996. The recording features Baudrillard reading his own poetry accompanied by an improvised ensemble that included artist Mike Kelley, musician George Hurley, Tom Watson, Dave Muller, Lynn Johnston, Amy Stoll, and guest vocalist Allucquère Rosanne Stone.

The location is inseparable from the work. A casino on the Nevada–California border, Whiskey Pete's belongs to the same landscape of highways, gambling, spectacle, and simulation that Baudrillard explored throughout America. Here, the theorist appears not as author but as performer, reading texts within the very terrain that informed much of his writing.

More than a spoken-word recording, the disc occupies an unusual position between artist publication, philosophical document, performance residue, and independent music release. Twenty years later it remains a curious surviving trace from a moment when contemporary art, critical theory, and underground culture briefly shared the same stage.

Condition: Factory sealed. Unopened original copy.

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