Haroon Mirza’s Ode to Obscure Ian Curtis Song Performed During FIAC

Earlier this week Haroon Mirza performed The Last Tape, a multimedia nod to Ian Curtis’s unrealized song about William S. Burroughs’ “Johnny 23.” The performance, presented by the Atelier Calder following Mirza’s residency there in Summer 2013, is a combination of spoken word and sculptural installation that investigates the boundary between music, noise, and sound. It was performed by cult musician Richard “Kid” Strange on a stage borrowed from Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” at the Brownstone Foundation in Paris on Tuesday.