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Birthed at Burning Man 1997, F-SPACE is an extreme experimental pyro-industrial art-punk rock project by Mobilization.com founders
Scot Jenerik (23five.org) and
Ethan Port (Savage Republic). "A runaway locomotive, combining sweeping sonic guitar sound scapes with Scot Jenerik's thunderous pyro-metalic, often fire belching instruments, and ferocious drums. The result conjures up an apocalyptic, feral, destructive trance state implying a catastrophic act of nature, a march through the desert on the path to war, or an offender's mental state during a crime of passion."

F-SPACE takes it's name from the performance space used by extreme physical performance artist Chris Burden in the 1970s. The epic F-SPACE piece "Through The Night Softly" is titled after one of Chris Burden's performances where "Holding my hands behind my back, I crawled through 50 feet of broken glass. There were very few spectators, most of them passersby."

The current project "Bleeding Rays of Dawn" is based abstractly on the writings of Cormac McCarthy.

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Mobilization.com is a San Francisco based DIY label, recording studio and production company dedicated to promoting artists and events which "launch". Past events have included the "How to Destroy the Universe" festivals, the "Industrial Culture Film Festival", and several radio based and online audio histories on the prime-movers of industrial and punk/post-punk culture. also has hours of free MP3 interviews with Industrial and California Post-Punk prime movers, including Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans, Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich, The Weirdoes, Sonic Youth, Genesis P-Orridge and PTV3 .

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Recordings:

New: Post Asiatic Vol. 2 - Compilation includes the full F-SPACE track "Shining Light"

F-SPACE: Preliminary Impact Report (2005)

Videos

• F-SPACE: Burning Man 2020 Video - 1998

1948 - 2008

Jack Marquette passed away this week (June 17). Jack was a very humble, quiet, often "behind the scenes" icon in the Los Angeles art-punk community. In fact, Jack was sick for quite awhile and I did not know anything about it. So I was sucker punched in the gut earlier this week to learn of Jack's passing.

Jack was one of the masterminds behind the infamous 1980's Los Angeles art-damage club the Anti-Club. Before the Anti-Club he ran the Brave Dog, and later ran roaming Theoretical parties at random venues around Los Angeles, including parking lots around downtown's Skid Row. Jack was an amazing, positive spirit in the center of the spinning vortex that was the early Los Angeles punk/new-wave/no-wave/whatever scene. Jack booked so many crazy artists, who often seemed like they had nothing in common with each other beyond just all being different and weird and pushing limits.

Decades later, many may not remember Jack. But Jack was a prime mover and the genuine article. But Jack's influence and impact on so many of us who were there in the cyclone of the early 80s LA punk scene can not be measured. Jack was one of the most important and influential people in my life.

Jack was a community builder and a good friend. He did so much to avoid labeling and dividing, which seems so common in this modern world. He completely understood the fundamental from the gut passion and instinct for what all of us considered "punk" in 1980s Los Angeles.

Personally, Jack did so much to help me and so many others as an artist when I was a confused, depressed, scruffy high school art punk, and to create a community I could relate to, exist and grow up in. He put on most of the Savage Republic shows in Los Angeles in the 1980s at his various venues and roaming parties, as well as countless ever changing bands, performance groups and collectives with so many of us. Jack was always willing to book whatever crazy experimental project I had going. [iframe]d the recent How to Destroy the Universe festivals as a direct copy of Jack's principles and aesthetic from his Theoretical parties.

I have such great memories of those evenings in the "incubator", like Skip Arnold hanging naked from a tri-pod, lung collapsing, just before White House cleared out the Anti-Club, with Helen - the bar owner, pulling cables at the sound board and Jack in his white coveralls calmly playing defense so Russell could reconnect the cables, so the band could keep going for that much longer. Or one of Brad Laner's band-of-the-week projects constantly pissing off Helen. And so many other amazing performances, like Aphodic Culture, Nervous Gender, Strong Silent Types, Black Flag or whatever other SST band of the week was there, Minutemen, Characters like Don Bolles and Tony Pony in so many bands, Brad Laner and friends in even more projects, the Party Boys, Tank Burial, God and the State, and the roster goes on and on and on. So many one-off experiments that would never find a venue then.

Constant inventing and re-inventing and pushing. And Jack was always there to say YES, LET'S DO IT!!!

I miss him so much...

-Ethan Port Solstice - 21 June, 2008

If you have any stories, photos, etc. about Jack, please get in touch. We will be building a memorial site for Jack here. Years ago Jack put together his own site for other fallen heros at www.theoretical.com