‘… a most powerful juxtaposition of spiritual enlightenment, sociological intention, audience symbiosis, and pure Animal.’
JD Samson. Arts Feature, Tom Tom Magazine, USA 2015

A spontaneous composition summons unexpected outcomes at Giant Rock; the world's largest free standing boulder, sacred site, historic UFO hotspot and magnet for the eccentric in the Mojave Desert, California.

The Site.

In the mid 1930’s a guy called Critzer dynamited under the rock and made a home. He built an airstrip and put a radio transmitter on top of the rock, which fuelled rumors that he was a spy. He was a German loner and WWII was raging.

Critzer ended up blown to bits. The hero version is that he self detonated. The other version is that the cops tried to evacuate him by throwing in some tear gas and ignited HIS PERSONAL DYNAMITE.

The ghost of Critzer saw the place become a flying saucer convention hotspot. His old friend Van Tassel took it on swearing that the rock had piezoelectric channeling powers. Mr Tassel meditated in Critzer’s subterranean bunker in order to get closer to ET’s and in 1953 had the contact he’d always wanted. He swore he got to check out a UFO.

Van Tassel went on to run the Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock for the next twenty or so years.
The subterranean space was eventually concreted up by the authorities, leaving a flat concrete platform.
This is the platform where I perform.