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Autopsia

Autopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970's, continued during the 80's in the art centers of former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia has acted from Prague - Czech Republic. At the beginning of its activity Autopsia issued dozens of MC's, in the period after 1989, twenty CDs were issued, at first for Staalplaat from Amsterdam, then for German label Hypnobeat and London's Gymnastic Records. Autopsia's music can be found on numerous compilations issued all over the world. One of its compositions is a part of the soundtrack for Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book. Music production of Autopsia can be classified as experimental, breakcore, avant-garde, ambient, industrial; it's associated with a large graphic production which consists of original graphic objects, design of flyers, posters, booklets, CDs, experimental films and audio installations.

Autopsia quotations

  • Pop culture, in so far as it does induce, command or otherwise result in conformity, clearly cannot fulfil the essential promise of art and deliver us from the homogenising manipulations of the market. In other words, it can never result in the new, in the modernist sense.
  • Mystification is a pure strategy of power used by almost everyone, from politicians to artists, and through it, in a relatively simple way, various things are given an aura of unreachable values, although they suffer the "extra reality" or even banality.
  • Look, the Radical Machine begins to function, and its functioning successively seizes Perception, the Body, Sexuality, the Earth and Cosmos; in it everything is fulfilled, and every outer limit is estranged and disqualified as an insurmountable boundary, save for the very last one - Death.
  • Above all, we are not concerned with music. Our subject is the death and the pity of death. The music is in the pity.

Selected discography

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Autopsia Silently the Wolves are Watching 7" vinyl
  1. The Knife 12” EP Staalplaat - 1989
  2. Death Is The Mother of Beauty CD Staalplaat - 1990
  3. Palladium CD - 1991 Hypnobeat
  4. Wound CD - 1991 Gymnastic Records
  5. Requiem Pour Un Empire MCD - 1991 Hypnobeat
  6. Waldsinfonie: The Silence Of The Lamb MCD - 1993 Hypnobeat
  7. The Birth Of The Crystal Power CD - 1993 Hypnobeat
  8. The Knife (Autopsia album)-1992, STAALPLAAT, re-issue + two bonus tracks
  9. White Christmas MCD - 1994 Hypnobeat
  10. Waldsinfonie: The Silence Of The Lamb CD, complete version - 1995 Hypnobeat
  11. Palladium CD - Box Edition - 1995 Hyperium Records
  12. Humanity Is the Devil 1604-1994 (including the theme from The Pillow Book (film), CD - 1995 Hypnobeat
  13. Secret Christmas History MCD - 1995 Hypnobeat
  14. Mystery Science CD (Hypnobeat - 1996)
  15. Prager Kodex (Discordia CD - compilation of Autopsia side projects) - 1995
  16. In Vivo 1984-1992 (CD, Vintage Recordings - 1998)
  17. The Secret Block For A Secret Person In Ireland (CD, Illuminating Technologies 1999)
  18. Colonia CD Staalplaat 2002
  19. Song Of The Night (Multimedia CD ROM, Illuminating Technologies 2005.)
  20. Radical Machine /1.0/ (CDsingle+Tshirt+6 photographs, Illuminating Technologies 2005.)
  21. Rotation/Pilger (10" split vinyl, Mozgalom Records 2006.)
  22. The Berlin Requiem (OECD 084 Old Europa Cafe 2006.)
  23. Night Landscapes (CD Illuminating Technologies 2006.)
  24. Silently the Wolves are Watching (7" vinyl Illuminating Technologies 2007.)

Autopsia on compilations

  1. THE LAMP OF THE INVISIBLE LIGHT, CD Cthulhu Rec.
  2. KNIGHTS OF ABYSS, CD Abyss Records
  3. ZAUBER OF MUSIC, CD Hypnobeat/Hyperium
  4. EXCELSIS: A DARK NOEL, CD Projekt records
  5. CHAN'GE, CD Hyperium Asia
  6. STATEMENT 1961, [2 lps+single+CD]
  7. SNX 4xLP box, Hawai
  8. Hypnobeats CD Hypnobeat
  9. Mjölnir 2xcassette Cthulhu Records
  10. 19 KEYS-19BANDS 2xcassette Club Moral
  11. HYPNOTIC/HYPERSONIC CD Hyperium
  12. EXCELSIS 3xCD, Projekt records
  13. JOURNEY INTO PAIN 4xcassette RRRecords
  14. HYPERIUM NEW CLASSICS Vol.1 CD Hyperium

Autopsia Films

Experimental, abstract found footage films.

  1. THE CZECH BOOK OF THE DEAD DVD 2006 Illuminating Technologies
  2. FLAMME DVD 2006
  • Reality can only be grasped indirectly - seen reflected in a mirror, staged in the theater of the mind.
  • We make ghostly films - haunted by great cinematic models: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa, and anti-models: Hollywood, MTV.
  • A posthumous films, in the era of cinema's unprecedented mediocrity.
  • The key to Autopsia films is beyond the narrative, beyond the 'story' that we witness. What provides the density of cinematic enjoyment is material form beyond interpretation.

Official

Unofficial

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