JESUS RAVES
electro-crucification & salvation installation

Where was Jesus from 12 to 30? Throwing parties in the desert! What these troubled times call for is a disposable superstar-DJ savior to take the blame for all of us.

Raving Religion? Praise the Bass!

Throughout history humans have always felt the need to find a scapegoat, something to place the blame on for what they don’t understand, whether it be an animal sacrifice for a bad harvest, a personal savior for personal sins, or hip music culture for crime.

Examples: The Salem Witch Trials. McCarthyism. Few people are aware that comic books of the 50’s were blamed for the delinquency of youth at the time. The government moved in and great American artwork was blocked from publication, or had to be changed. Some publishers lost everything they had. The same thing is happening to electronic music events today. The music and lighting installations at these events are amazing, and have influenced our culture right down to TV commercials, but the events are targeted as artistically worthless and corrupt. Is this a lazy-law-enforcement lump-them-all-together government/media smear-job or what?

This raving religion Mad Libs comic-book “tract” installation was easy to make. (Fill in a few words here and there, and you’re “good to go.”) Why? Because the times and places may change, but the lies remain the same.

fast-food strip-mall scene-savior

Jethrox, God the Father of our scene, declined the offer to be the main character of this installation. (A modest man making smart move for sure, ‘cause who wants to be some pitiable pity-me party-martyr?) So we, like most cultures, must fabricate our own scapegoat and dispose of it. We’re talkin’ cheap fast-food strip-mall disposable, so here goes...Imagine, if you will, the mystical union of jethrox, king of the underground-underworld with mainstream squeaky-clean queen J.Lo. “DUDE, WHAT WERE YOU THINKIN’?” O.K. everyone makes mistakes, The Greek god, Zeus, did princess Europa as a crow, but at least J.Lo’s hot ;-) .

Mix God-the-Father jethrox with mainstream-queen J.Lo, and what do you get? J.Roc, God the Son. Little “jethrox, Jr.” aka DJ Saint J.Roc is an old-school pop-culture demigod (the “roc,” stands for one ball, kind of like a sexual Cyclops). As a demigod J.Roc is half cool half not, divine, yet tragically vulnerable, a disposable superstar DJ savior to take the blame for all of us. HA!

This installation tells his story...(click here)

by TJ Richter

© June 29, 2002 Theodore J. Richter