The album entitled Screw from multi-media and mock-situationalist style performance art troupe Scratch My Nose (SMN) was released 1997; collaboration of the intergalactic SMN twisted 'twins' and kindred.
Fans of SMN would constantly remark on the sound aspect of their performance geared work and so they decided to write/record an album entitled Screw. Radio sessions in Sydney and NYC were subsequently spawned hot on the release of the album. SMN took their sonic anarchy to radio stations as DJ's for local Sydney radio station FBI and the popularity of the show saw them invited to present sessions for WFMU in NY, USA.
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Scratch My Nose - historical overview ...
The main driving incentive of multi-media group Scratch My Nose is challenging complacency in the Arts.
The SMN 'twins' were involved with the underground/alternative live music circuit as well as other artistic pursuits. Musically and indeed performance wise they both enjoyed flying in the face of the norm of the time including hardcore punk band Public Nuisance in the early to mid 1980’s and Alternative band Driptray. Both feeling an ‘itch’ to challenge what they saw as complacency in the arts (and complacent mindsets in general), the performance aspect of live gigs merged with their film (scratch videnose) and street art interests until the itch became insatiable as Scratch My Nose.
Scratch My Nose (hereafter known as SMN) is a multi-media group who have created and directed over 30 major projects in many different disciplines incorporating film, performance, street art, radio and sound. SMN’s unique and innovative approach always seeks new creative platforms to question and challenge common perceptions by confronting and humouring its audience. Over the last 25 years SMN has defied conventional approaches to art making in endlessly inventive ways. While their signature style falls against the grain of their contemporaries, their ‘jump-cut slash-together’ aesthetic is unique and immediately recognisable.
“Wild. Unlike anything I have heard really” – Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
“Great examples of quality, freeform, creative and adventurous art … Ritalin inspired, constantly chattering and clinically insane.” – Brian Turner, WFMU New Jersey. USA. Music / Program Director.
Their work has been shown in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, Beirut Lebanon, Santiago de Chile, New Jersey USA and London UK. Members of SMN now live in Sydney Australia, Santiago de Chile and London UK.
