I hope this will become truth: John Zorn will be a special guest of this year's ARS CAMERALIS SILESIA SUPERIORIS art festival in Katowice, Poland. It's scheduled for the fall 2002. He agreed to visit because Hans Bellmer, who's art Zorn admires for years (just look at Naked City's Absinthe cover art), was born in Katowice before WW2. Silesia region is and industrial, middle-south region of Poland, actually, a very special zone influenced by both polish and german culture, but during last 50 years of comunism, speaking about the german roots was almost forbidden, therefore Bellmer was not known here at all. I live in Katowice and I have learned about Bellmer via Zorn and the cover art of NC! All fans in Poland are looking forward to see him here, visitors are welcome, since Zorn didn't play at the _continent_ for 3years (I guess), and the performance must be something special (since Bellemr is the excuse to come), this will be a unique event. More info about Katowice at http://www.um.katowice.pl/eng/index.php, if you want to come and need some more practical information feel free to contact me. __________________________________________________________________ Artur Nowak [arno at emd dot pl] www.emd.pl/muzyka