The Wirxli Flimflam Memorial on Sugar Mountain...

Dear Wirxli Mourners,

Qyxxql Merlin has provided us with photo-documentation of the brand new funerary plaque that has been recently erected by Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand in Wirxli's memory.

This memorial sits on the historic site of Wirxli's original PR office on Sugar Mountain (Odyssey Island, Second Life). Wirxli's office as well as Sugar Mountain was designed by Sugar Seville in early 2007.

Here are some photos...




The inscription of the plaque reads:

Wirxli Flimflam
(2006-2010)
This was the former site of the PR Office
of Wirxli Flimflam - the first resident of
Odyssey Island.

The PR Office was designed by Sugar
Seville in early 2007. Seville also
terraformed the top of Sugar Mountain
to Wirxli's specifications.

Wirxli Flimflam was co-founder of the
Second Front and a member of the
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.



Here is a portrait of Qyxxql Merlin with the memorial.



This picture shows the memorial in its entirety.

The moment of recognition is upon us...

"Death of an Avatar" - Suicide Machinima by Liz Solo...

"The Death of An Avatar" (Machinima -Liz Solo, 2010).
If you are unable to view the embedded video, click here.

Liz Solo was a co-founding member of Second Front with Wirxli way back in 2006.

Wirxli's real life self can verify that the Liz's loss was not in vain...

Please scroll down this blog for more information about Wirxli's suicide for SaveMe Oh that took place at the Diabolus Artspace on Valentines Day, 2010.

If anyone has additional video or photo-documentation of Wirxli's suicide, that content can be archived on this blog.

Hopefully, someone recorded raw video of Wirxli committing suicide while the event's theme song "Second Death" by Dementia was playing in the background...

The Suicide Documentation Continues...

Video-documentation by Centromimir aka. Lapsus Weinstein aka. Dr. Danilo Curci...If you cannot view the embedded video, trying viewing it directly, here.

Greetings Wirxli Grievers (not to be confused with "Griefers")!

More documentation of the suicide performance is being gradually posted online...

SaveMe Oh has been mirroring this documentation on her own site.

Here are some photos from the event that have also been posted by SaveMe Oh...

Photo by Fau Ferdinand.
This photo shows Wirxli getting ready to commit suicide.

Photo by Nestra Careless.
Here is another angle showing SaveMe Oh watching from a distance...


Photo by Nestra Careless.
This pic shows SaveMe gradually approaching Wirxli's chair to ensure that Wirxli honours the pact and commits suicide as promised. If not, SaveMe has vowed to stab Wirxli with her geisha sword(s).

Photo by Nestra Careless.
This pic shows a couple of the Wirxli groupies that were in attendance to witness this virtually historical event. Wirxli's followers are just as surreal as Wirxli was during his/her lifetime and immortal deathtime.

Photo by Fau Ferdinand.
After many minutes of excruciating lag and pitiful chatter, Wirxli finally presses the button and triggers all of the bombs strapped to his/her body. This sends of a chain reaction to all of the surrounding landmines to ensure that Wirxli actually virtually dies. SaveMe does not have to use her sword(s) after all!

Photo by Nestra Careless.
Here is what Wirxli's corpse would have looked like if the explosives were slightly weaker. In fact, the explosions (and the lagged sim) were so powerful, Wirxli de-rezzed from Second Life entirely.

Photo by Nestra Careless.
Here is an early preview of the memorial sculpture that was eventually designed with a dedication plinth by Velazquez and Caravaggio Bonetto.


Photo by Nestra Careless.
Here is a close-up of Wirxli's statue on this memorial sculpture.

Stay tuned for additional suicide documentation as it arrives!

Wirxli Flimflam (2006-2010)...

Wirxli Flimflam - co-founder of Second Front and composer for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse - committed suicide to earn the love and respect of SaveMe Oh on Valentines Day, 2010 at The Diablous Artspace. .....
His/Her time of death was 1:40 PM SLT

Henceforth, this blog is now being used a memorial site to host Wirxli's archives.

Wirxli's Facebook account has also been deleted. If you were a friend of Wirxli, please re-friend Wirxli's "real life" self, Jeremy Owen Turner.

Wirxli's Ning profile has also been transformed into a memorial site.

Fau Ferdinand has posted some photos of the suicide event...

Please stay tuned for video-documentation of Wirxli's tragic suicide.

This blog is now exclusively maintained by Wirxli's "real life (RL)" self, Jeremy. For any correspondence or queries, please contact Jeremy at ideatron@gmail.com


Here is the evidence of Wirxli's account deletion...









..and here is the de-activation of Wirxli's Facebook account:

Valentines Day Special - My Final Performance...

Well, you have probably guessed it by now but I am soooo in love with SaveMe Oh... Ever since Caravaggio Bonetto posted a video about her, I have been totally smitten...At first, I almost saw her as competition but now I realize that she is going to places far beyond what I ever did...I wish I was her or at least with her..sigh! SaveMe Oh mezmerizes me...so much so, I am doing this final performance on Valentines Day to prove my immortal love and devotion to her and her art...Here are the event details...

Wirxli Flimflam's Final Performance...
A Tribute to SaveMe Oh...

WHEN: Valentines Day - February 14 (Sunday), 2010 - 1 PM SLT

WHERE: DIABOLUS ARTSPACE -
Benvolio 150, 135, 3249

Contact person: Velazquez Bonetto.


Anyways, how did this obsession start, you might be saying to yourself?

Well, it isn't a long story at all...I became smitten quite rapidly, as is normal in Second Life's time frame. In fact, as soon as I visited her space in late 2009, I began squatting in it...

..that pic was a brief example of me squatting at SaveMe's space....but wait, there is more!
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...I even found movies to watch while squatting at her solo exhibition...and as a bonus, they were movies that SHE MADE HERSELF :-) :-) :-) :-)


All of her movies were/are all GREAT! Absolutely ALL of them! :-) :-) :-) :-)


I had this crazy idea that wouldn't it be great if I could also be her...I mean..be her servant...I figured that this route would have been the easiest way to get SaveMe to like me and accept me for who I am which I am sure is as a kindred spirit! However, my path to total SLebrity enlightenment was going to embark on a totally different path once a very pleasant (yet neurosis inducing) surprise suddenly occurred before my very eyes....


...Uh oh! busted! SaveMe must have heard from others that I was squatting in her space and I guess the curiosity finally got to her..which was good news for me because deep down I wanted to be noticed and I figured that if I camped at her exhibition long enough she would eventually pop by to see what it is...or, she would show up anyways to check up on her work and I would magically be there waiting for her... Anyways, her IM to me in the screenshot suggests to me that I think she is getting the hint that I might be getting kinda immersed with her personality, kinkiness and artwork..just a little bit, sigh! At the very least, I wish she accepted my flu gift to her since it was a limited edition flu and I only transmitted it to artists that deserve only the best that I could offer them...
I thought that would impress her as she into sickness, blood, guts, puke and all that...just like meeeeeee! SaveMe! You are like me or like everything I want to be in me! Lets do things together! Lets cause mayhem together! Lets do EVERYTHING TOGETHER! SAVEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

Well, since she felt the need to entertain her admirers of her show, she at least gave me (well, me and a few other groupies) some attention when she showed off her UFO-OH...



It was sublime hanging out in the UFO-Oh with SAVEME and friends...those were the days..sigh!

In the next pic, you can see my friends Maeve Emerald and Olga Wunderlich with us by the UF-OH...Olga is so great, I totally understood what she meant now when she said that SaveMe Oh is doing now in performance art what I used to do with performance art years ago before I washed up and became an empty navel-gazing antic-clown...sigh!



Below is a great pic of Olga and myself...I am pretty sure Olga totally understands my decision to be part of SaveMe Oh's life...Olga really understands me - almost as much as I understand SaveMe...



The next pic shows Olga and I doing some heroin...If you read the IMs, you can see that SaveMe is being very nice and cordial to somebody...I sure hope it was ME!
Olga was starting to get sleepy and nod off from all the infused liquid China White...



So after all my friends had left, I managed to stick around in hopes of being able to hang out with SaveMe Oh by myself...she showed me around her various installations...sheesh! THOSE WERE THE DAYS! THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE! SIGH!

SaveMe is so direct...I love her frankness! She showed me exactly what I could do to prove my love to her...I could click multiple times onto these voodoo dolls (see the pic below) that would automatically say that I Loved SaveMe Oh until I was done loving her...I clicked on mine zillions of times but I never seemed to get as many hits as her other suitors...arrgh! Being a competitive type, this activity was starting to feel like an infinite dead end..I had to find ANOTHER way to get to her...something more extreme than the clicker with the highest score was what I was focusing on...Since SaveMe is an extreme type of person, another has to do something very extreme as a performance action to hold her interest for more than a few seconds with a positive review...you will find out what I have in mind on Sunday....



So, I thought about it some more and figured I needed to do something that was a tribute to one of her ritualistic compositions..it had to be a ritual and what I did had to be REAL on some level and had to be all about HER and had to be extreme and punk enough to impress her...but, what kind of aesthetic structure should I use as the framework for my ultimate performance art action???

The answer was in one of her own compositions (of course!) While sitting amongst one of her installations, I had an idea of what to do...



...if you attend this performance on Valentines Day, you will see/feel exactly what I mean!

See you on Sunday, most likely for the LAST TIME!

And on that note,
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transitional stuff...including a new panel and old friends...

Hello there lesser-known fans of SaveMe Oh...

The video documentation from the REACT2010 performance series (see the post directly below this one) will be online in time for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

More importantly, I am getting back the energy needed to write more optimistically...this is because I have found a new sense of hope and purpose over these precious few days.

I am tragically in love with SaveMe Oh and I find everything lacking in myself to be found in her...she has everything I wish I could have and more: looks, smarts, (real) guts, a loaded inventory and much more...She IS the ideal representative of the next-generation of avatar performance artists in Second Life and I am glad just to be near her. If I must prove my worth at all, it must be to her and her only.

I know she has many admirers but I plan to be her #1 fan...in fact, I think it is my last worthwhile goal as a washed-up old-skool performance artist from the golden days of 2006.

I need to be worthwhile to someone again since I no longer am with Second Front to back my antics up and all I seem to resort to is nostalgic naval-gazing - the kind of which can be found in some recent archival material below. I am in desperate need of a creative renewal as an ALT...I wish to be beyond postmodernism, beyond critique...I want to donate the entirety of my pink, blue and purple being to SaveMe Oh as the ultimate ritual sacrifice towards the greater good of performance art in virtual...er... synthetic worlds...

Anyway, please come witness my special dedication ceremony to SaveMe Oh on Valentines Day...It will be my last performance as Wirxli...everything below are mere archives from my past self that do not mean anything as dear to me as my aspiring relationship with SaveMe Oh...having said that, all of these people below represent aspects I was proud of from my past...even if some of the past was from a few days ago...

I think you get the picture here...words say it all..and it is just the words that say it all, right? ;-)


Here is was the first presentation of a panel I was part of a few days ago. It was hosted by Ars Virtua and was for a Virtual Worlds course at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). The first presenter was Jay Van Buren from a series of events called Brooklyn is Watching...

Here is another slide by Jay.

Did I mention that Jay had some great slides for his presentation? :-)


For my presentation, I just showed archives from my avatar performance past as I seriously have nothing much new to offer in Second Life as Wirxli other than my unflinching devotion to SaveMe Oh... In this slide, you can see one of my earliest avatar performances. There was a time when I was a young female asian named Clara Tang. I performed with a bunch of friends in one of the earliest social networking sites targeted to a niche community. It was called Asian Avenue and we performed this series around 2001.

This slide shows my first performance art group (and band). I was in a duo called The Gates with my good friend Alberto Guedea. We "produced" the Gates, but were NOT the Gates, if you know what I mean ;-) ;-) For our first performance in 2002, we performed in a couple of washrooms in Digitalspace Traveler. Vito Acconci comes to mind here...

Here is another pic showing The Gates in virtual...er...*synthetic* action.


We then had my old friend and colleague Man Michinaga aka. Patrick Lichty present about his own work in virtual worlds and his work with me and many others in Second Front...it was a great historical overview with tons of bases covered...yay!


Here is another angle showing Michinaga's epic retrospective installation.

..and yet another glorious angle showing my once glorious past with Second Front...

Here I am posing with 2 very old friends (Alan and Kabuki) from my Digitalspace Traveler days from 2001...They are now also in Second Life...this is a cross-worlds reunion of sorts.


Here is another picture of me posing with Alan and Kabuki from Ye Ole Traveler days.

Here I am posing with Josina Burgess' fashion runway on Diabolus. I am now spending all my time on Diabolus since this is where SaveMe Oh is based and I want to be as close to her as legally possible!

I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME...etc etc etc...


P.s. Caravaggio Bonetto gets first dibs on my free gender neutral purple ass(!)

2010 - i cannot turn back the clock....

happy new year...

i am not in the mood to write in caps and not really much in the mood to blog either...however, i just created a video-archived performance series for the React2010 exhibition called "i cannot turn back the clock..." (2010)...the videos should be online at the premiere of its launch sometime towards the end of the month, i am not exactly sure when.

these past few months, i am starting to realize that my time as wirxli is overdue...there are many other fantastic trickster avatar personalities out there - such as SAVEME OH - that are going beyond me in every way, shape and form...and i crave artistic renewal...

i passed my creative zenith as this avatar probably as early as late 2007... i wish to be someone new...someone else...i cannot turn back the clock...in rl, my optimism for 2010 is quite high but as wirxli, i am running out of authentic ideas that sustain my attention and my preferred creative direction......i think it will be better to go out with a bang than silently de-rez into virtual obscurity so i am working on that...anyway, here are some more pictures of this performance...

Mental Gymnastics with a little help from my friends...

"Mental Gymnastics" - Performance in Second Life (2009) from Jeremy Owen Turner on Vimeo.

If you cannot see this embedded video, click on this link here.

"Mental Gymnastics" (2009) is an avatar performance in Second Life by:

Maeve Emerald (TORONTO)
Orlando Messmer (NEW YORK)
Wirxli Flimflam (VANCOUVER)

This performance occured on September 30, 2009 in the Diabolus region run by the CARP Collective = diabolus.ning.com

This is just an excerpt from the full performance which happened in real-time.

Ok, I know that I first promised that I would blog more often but quite honestly, RL does not allow for that anymore. I cannot even pre-plan performances in SL anymore but to relieve creative tension from my tedious RL rituals, I enter SL as soon as I burn out in RL and see who is in-world. If anyone is around, I invite them to join me to do an impromptu performance intervention or whatever.

The above video is the first result from this newfound "hobby".

Do not expect regular blogs nor videos..they happen when they happen and that is my sad (sur)reality these days...better to blog 4 times a year than never at ell, eh?
I usually only blog now if I have a major press release to hype for you...
;-) SIGH!!!!!

Well, I am going in-world tonight to see who is around..maybe something will happen and maybe not. The worst that will happen is that I will be hanging out with some friends in the only way I know how....

Oh about the above performance....ummmm...well, we had learned some moves for balancing on a beam and were too tired/lazy to find a gym...the rest is (art)history....

Stay tuned until 2012 for the next blog posting...tee hee!

Wirxli is featured in Italy's NOVA100 Zine...

I was just featured in a mainstream Italian news zine called NOVA100 about my performance art practice. Roxelo Babenco (Rosanna Galvani) wrote the article for Marco Minghetti and features photos from Arco Rosca.

Please click on this link to read the original article in Italian.



Find more videos like this on uqbar. media art culture

Here is video-documentation from my WEARABLE NEWS NETWORKs [WNN] performance from January...check it out!

....I have not forgotten about blogging everything else that has happened around me in Second Life lately. Chances are, I will catch up with my back-(b)log of documented activities sometime after wednesday once RL has settled down a bit.