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Audio Essay
by Philipp Rhensius,
ENCOR

Challenging the perception of its listeners is at the core vision of the collective Encor Studio. Listen to an audio essay in which they discuss their site-specific installation «Adsum» which creates moments of pure presence.

Every absence is an ancestor: speak to it,
ignore it, feed it, turn it out of doors,
it will not matter – It knows where you live,
which side of the pillow you prefer in sleep,
where you buy eggs and milk and toilet
Paper. […]
(Igloria 2018)

List of References

Igloria, Luisa A. 2018. «Absence, Presence». In The Buddha Wonders If She Is Having a Mid-Life Crisis. Montreal: Phoenica.

This audio essay was created by the musician, writer, and Norient editor Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist in autumn 2023 at Klang Moor Schopfe 2023. Each piece features conversations with (and sounds by) the artists and their installations, merged with Rhensius’ own compositions, field recordings, and poetry. To open a speculative realm, each piece is assigned to a poem.

Biography

Philipp Rhensius is an editor for Norient, writer, musician, sound artist, sociologist & musicologist, and curator from Berlin. His work investigates the connections between the micro- and macro-political and is driven by the idea that «feeling the chains» is the moment when emancipation begins. His music and sound art projects (Kl.ne, aphtc, Alienationst) merge sonic fiction with sardonic poetry and visceral sound. His texts are published in i.e. Taz, Spex, FAZ, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, WOZ and several book volumes. He runs the music label Arcane Patterns and hosts a monthly podcast on Noods Radio. Follow him on Instagram, his Website, or LinkedIn.

Biography

ENCOR is an art studio founded in 2016 by swiss artists Mirko Eremita, David Houncheringer, Valerio Spoletini & Manuel Oberholzer. They use light and acoustics as messenger and symbolic value to project themselves into a world which like the properties of light itself are still mainly mysterious and out of reach of our full understanding. Follow them on their Website.

Published on August 31, 2023

Last updated on April 09, 2024

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