Timeless - thebookmann - Feinin: King Cobo

Saturday, January 12, 2008

King Cobo - John Stollmeyer

Muda of mudas, fada of fadas ,You belong to the Earth, de Earth does not belong to you, I am General Motors, the World Bank, granulated sugar, the creater of the population explosion

For visitors to Trinidad and Tobago, this is one of our traditional carnival characters called the Midnight Robber. King Cobo, performed by John Stollmeyer is a sample of its role to upkeep the traditions of Carnival from the grip of commercialism.

The King Cobo character's concept was born, as Mr.Stollmeyer explains in 1990, Toronto's Caribana . In 2000, King Cobo dies and this is the incarnation as his mother, Nikita B Nekbet, the vulture goddess of Upver Nile. listen to his speech in its entirety on youtube. It should be noted that the honking of car horns is an acknowledgment of the performance.

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In 2008, he began a series of self studies called Feinin which incorporated digital superpositions of artists who have left a mark in art history by using the internet as the core of reference. He also produced parodies relating to anthropological studies of Trinidad and Tobago, for example, folklore or observations of the society via class and stereotypes

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