FASTWÜRMS

Honkytown (1990)

At Paul Petro Contemporary Art
May 19 - June 17, 2006
opens Friday May 19, 7-10pm

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Honkytown is a low budget utopian narrative created around the futuristic institution of the 'Wishing Well'.

The 'Wishing Well' is an intelligent space, time and sound machine that mysteriously arrives to support the citizens of Honkytown in their quest to replace all ignorance and brutality with knowledge and beauty.

The citizens of Honkytown are fabulous 'miscegenation' creatures; day-glo beavers, cat head flower and elephant head people, who follow the teachings of P. B. Mukhopadhyay.

The only surviving Honkytown document from P. B. Mukhopadhyay is a text collage, originally found in Parkdale, Toronto, of his editorial from the Hindu Dharma Review, July Sept 1989.

Mukhopadhyay informs English speakers of the Sanskrit meanings of "the holy symbol and seal of Swastika", reminds them of the historic and karmic punishment for the abuse of this holy symbol, and speaks out against the "mendacities created and propagated by the advocates of 'white supremacists' ".

- FASTWURMS, 1990/2006