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YACHT Calendar
YACHT in Australia Groovin' The Moo 2013 - Maitland - April 27
Groovin' The Moo 2013 - Canberra - April 28
Sydney, NSW - Oxford Art Factory - April 30
Melbourne, VIC - Ding Dong - May 3
Groovin' The Moo 2013 - Bendigo - May 4
Groovin' The Moo 2013 - Townsville - May 5
Adelaide, SA - Rocket Bar - May 9
Perth, WA - Bakery - May 10
Groovin' The Moo 2013 - Bunbury - May 11
YACHT in Asia Bangkok, TH - TBC - May 13
Hong Kong, HK - Grappa's Cellar - May 15
Kuala Lumpur, MZ - Laundry Bar - May 16
Singapore, SG - TBC - May 17
12 Years of DFA Brooklyn, NY - Shea Stadium -May 24
Brooklyn, NY - Grand Prospect Hal - May 25
YACHT & Neon Indian DJ — LA Los Angeles, CA - Lure - May 31
Eric Andre Show Live! Los Angeles, CA - DJ set- Fonda Theater - July 16
What The Festival Dufur, OR - Wolf Run Ranch - July 26 - July 28
TAGS: Claire L. Evans, Jona Bechtolt, Jeffrey Jerusalem , Bobby Birdman
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In touring the world I’ve only ever sliced person-sized cross-sections through a massive simultaneity of experience. Like cuts in flesh, they heal up behind me, save for a few scars here and there where I might have managed to make contact, or where I ended up in the background of someone else’s holiday snapshot. On some scale, this is true for everyone. ‘What is life,’ wrote George Satayana in his essay ‘The Philosophy of Travel’ (1964), ‘but a form of motion and a journey through a foreign world?’
The talismanic enigma that is Claire L. Evans capitvated and coaxed the crowd into a euphoric, transcendent state of blissful everythingness. By the end, we were wishing that we could harness the cosmic, crystal energy carrot that was dangled in front of our noses.
From Synthesis Weekly’s a-maz-ing review of YACHT’s two performances at San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival.
Refinery29: When we saw you at Outside Lands you were rocking a beautiful blue lipstick. Do you like to push the envelop when it comes to makeup or any other aspect of your style?
Claire L. Evans: Makeup is something I think about a lot. I don’t wear very much makeup in my day-to-day life, but the ritual of ‘putting on the face’ before a show is a vital part of my performance process. It transforms me into a different being while simultaneously making me feel protected. For years, I wore red lipstick because I felt like it turned my face into a set of easily reproducible symbols. People, in recollecting the show, would think of red lips, blonde hair, black clothes — these powerful signifiers — and all the real characteristics of my face, my humanness, would fade away in their memories. It wouldn’t matter how I felt or how I really looked. The memory would be consistent, because of those iconic visual cues.
From YACHT’s Claire L. Evans Talks Makeup, Science, S.F., and More!
