In The Old Testament According to the Loose Collective, the collective puts a new spin on the Old Testament. Using contemporary performance methods – from cut-up techniques and chorus scenes to beat-boxing and diaspora post punk – they propose a physical and musical montage of elements of this enormous body of text, which today is still an expression of creativity and utopia, of human ambition and frustration.
For they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also,
and they have put it even among their own stuff (Joshua 7:11)
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It was good (Genesis 1:4)
It was good (Genesis 1:10)
It was good (Genesis 1:12)
It was good (Genesis 1:18)
It was good (Genesis 1:21)
It was good (Genesis 1:25)
It was very good (Genesis 1:31)
And, behold, it was corrupt (Genesis 6:12)
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