where do we go from here, a collaborative project of Natalia Janula and Sophie Mei Birkin, eimagines the holy well as a site where nature and mechanics converge in mythic and ecologi- cal dialogue. Charms and talismans, material and physical as- sets of personal and collective significance, have historically been brought to sites of water, as symbols of hope, faith and memory. Votive offerings are embedded within the material of the work speaking to the past, present and future. In perpetual motion, mechanically failing and futile, the well fuses material- ities - the natural, manmade and mechanical- to symbolically question human interventions in, and attempts to control, the natural world. The locus of our wishes and hopes for the fu- ture- can the well still function as a source of renewal?
2024
@janula._ and @sophie.m.e.i
The Fire @metamorphika.studio curated by @nazbalkaya @dis- playfever
documentation of LICHEN HUM’s performance and collective offerings to our well 🕳️
“𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙧𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨”
LICHEN HUM are an experimental electronic music trio consisting of Nia Fekri @niafekrix, Giulio del Lago @apri_goat and David Williams @ec_circ. Blending modular synthesis, sample manipulation and spoken word, LICHEN HUM weave surreal narratives and other-wordly soundscapes, channeling liminal sonic spaces through semi-improvisational performances.
where do we go from here, 2024
@nataliajanula and @sophie.m.e.i
The Fire @metamorphika.studio curated by @nazbalkaya @displayfever
