Smoper
Program, P.1819
- Identifier
- P.1819
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- February 24, 2003
- Description
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Douglas James(DJ) Steedman (Korea) and Park In Su (Korea)
Doors @ 7:30, Gig @ 8pm
Admission: $8 members/students, $10 general
Smoper: A double translation of the word 'Smurf' into Korean and back into English.
Smoper is not only a hip experimental laptop/guitar duo featuring two media studies professors from Seoul, but also the name of a dodgy chicken delivery franchise in Korea whose mascot is a creepy sickly-looking green Papa Smurf.
The two members of Smoper are:
Douglas James (DJ) Steedman, digital laptop DJ, effects, programming, beats, vocals: A versatile artist who has played in a number of underground bands and performed as a solo musician. Steedman is also a renowned performance artist (solo and with Victoria-based group, the Hermaphrodite Brotherhood), action poet, visual artist and new media professor at Korea University. Steedman lived in Victoria in the 90s and was a well-known figure in the local arts scene, as well as calendar editor for Monday Magazine. The Smoper gig will mark his first return to the island since leaving for Korea in 1999.