Seth Kim-Cohen [The Lévi Breaks]
February 2006

Lévi-Strauss meets "When The Levee Breaks" .

An anthropomorphism of sorts. Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Savage Mind (Pensée Sauvage) set to the kick drum pattern of Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks". As Lévi-Strauss dicusses "our" view of "primitive" peoples, John Bonham's thunderous right foot asserts its own theory of "the primitive". Installation: loudspeaker concealed within a kick drum at John Lely's Rational Fete, 7 February 2006 at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London, UK.

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