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Soul Coughing consists of M. Doughty as singer and occasional guitarist, Sebastion Steinberg on upright basses, M'ark De Gli Antoni handling the keyboards and samples, and Yuval Gabay on drums. Their music is a blend of very danceable bass and keyboard sounds and samples with surreal, beat-like vocals by Doughty. On the tune, "Sugar Free Jazz," for instance, "They normalize the signals and you're banging on freon,/Paleolithic eons, put the fake goatee on/and it booms as cool as, sugarfree jazz...
...main exhibit in the Spanish pavilion is a room-size sculpture, featuring an oversize bed frame, wire mesh and chairs, by Antoni Tapies. Tapies 30 years ago was a painter of great distinction, but on the evidence of this cumbersome and vapid work, he has no talent for sculpture; he is there because the Spanish fixedly believe he is the successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work...
...found-object assemblages by the Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham -- parodic weapons made out of rusty gun parts, salvaged wood, plastic pipe -- deal with race and cultural resistance, but do so by imaginative, not merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing...
...nature of science and religion, of history and myth, of language and subjectivity. The novel contains level after level of meaning, but it manages to escape being ponderous. Its metafictional tendencies (myths contained within myths, which contradict, criticize and salute each other and all stories) are balanced by Antoni's attention to his readers. Antoni spins a myth, but does not forsake his audience--he does not forget that a story should be enjoyable to read...
This deeply layered, structurally magnificent novel is innovative, fresh and powerful. Robert Antoni has already been called the Caribbean's Joyce, and though the comparison may be premature, his work has already made an impressive mark...