The Power & The Glory: Vatican Shadow Live
Dominick Fernow performs, because tonight, for all intents and purposes, is about electronica as performance art. And what it is he performs would offend the new faces here that I almost know, journalists who leave with the sour taste of moral ambivalence in their mouths. And somehow my response comes out all different. The instinct is to stand motionless in a state of repulsed fascination, as I oxygenate to this bizarre and mind-altering exhibition, as Dominick Fernow goes full Section 8. I think it’s awe, genuflection to the most perfect live expression of an artist’s music this writer has witnessed in some years.
At heart, Fernow is a moralist. Tonight though, in a live context, the New Yorker blurs the line between exposing evil and revelling in it.