Hyphen Publishing

03/08/2022

The present video piece is envisioned as a deep dive into the textured and unpredictable subterranean terrain of the earth, its narratives, histories, myths and metaphors. Stone is thick with sedimented time.

Deep below the surface of our lives lie the mysterious currents of the unseen world. As they emerge from the void and pass through great underground caverns, the scenes from the underland unfold along the walls of a chamber, down in the labyrinth beneath the riven ash.(Robert MacFarlane, Underland) Ruins of our past narratives seem like markings that could announce stories of an alter-tale. From deep within the unconscious unfolds an ancient trance.

To access the inner fabric of our reality, our innermost fears, desires, myths and narratives, we must turn within and allow their disturbing forms to impregnate our imagination. Our ‘flat perspectives’ feel increasingly inadequate to the deep worlds we inhabit, and to the deep time legacies we are leaving.(Robert MacFarlane, Underland)

Stone holds strange worlds within. [...] Even when inscribed with a known language or identifiable pictures, stone will arrive into the present as alien presence.(Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stone). Guided by a strange almost non-human voice, we are wandering alongside the flows of an almost liquid and reactive strata. Witnessing and erratic choreography of tectonic sounds, we deep dive into a sea of stone, into a world of movement that defies the immobility to which stone is too often consigned.

The “continually moving lithosphere” is a sea of stone, a perpetual voyage, doomed never to reach port. The lithic is oceanic. Mountains surge and fall, their epochal undulations no less animated than the swell and crash of seas, but impossible for us to view without the aid of narrative and art. Yet volcanoes spurt molten rock that flies, flows, hardens within a human timescale. Ash and lithic powder tumble air and earth in dry liquidity. Though we cannot swim in molten stone—or do so only to face instant immolation, like Empedocles at Etna—we are saturated in the lithic.(Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stone)

Like a guided deep meditation into the corridors of our subconscious archetypes, The Nether Side is the beginning of an alter-tale journey and thus the first chapter of LANDSCHAFT

LANDSCHAFT / THE NETHER SIDE The Nether Side draws inspiration and makes use of cut-up text from Robert MacFarlane’s book, Underland. The present...

03/08/2022

A field recording walk near the river to practice listening. From the nearest details to the most distant horizon, the ears operate with seismographic delicacy. Listening reveals the dynamic nature of things. Sound narrates, outlines and fills, but is always ephemeral and doubtful, unsettling our perception of sonic phenomena and audible spirits. Sounds are like ghosts. They slink around the visual object, moving in on it from all directions, tracing its contours and content in a formless breeze. The spectre of sound unsettles the idea of visual stability and involves us, as listeners, in the production of an auditory imagination.

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Like that of a Child / Nuchukana, is a performative investigation of the body as sensuous, sensitive, agentive and expressive in relation to the world. Colour, texture, and depth - the materiality of the world is known to us only in and by the body that enters and inhabits a given place.

Trees, given their size and material form are major generators of sensations, spaces and perspectives with which, through our senses, we engage with places and with nature. Landscapes are complex interweavings of subject and object- the material and the imaginative bound into our everyday encounters of local places. (Tree cultures / The place of trees and trees in their place - Owain Jones and Paul Cloke)

There is an inextricable link between people and trees, especially old trees. From all the thousands of uses we have put them to, and all the fears and desires we have projected onto them, human cultures around the world have emerged from the trees. Now that we know our abuse of trees has brought ruin to them and us, we turn again to the venerable ones, searching for some resilient spirit, eternal, or near as damn it.(Evans, P. 1999 - "Long live trees", Guardian, 29 December)

In Amerindian cultures, tree bark can be seen as another type of skin that is shed and which, like the skin of snakes and the uterus, generates new forms. The connection between tree and uterus is present in one myth about the origin of humanity where it is narrated that the ‘first people were created in a hole in a tree; and in the transcription the term used for this hole (xankin) is that normally used to refer to a womb .
The interior of a tree, its hardest part, its core, is called kwa in Kuna language. There are only two ways in which the kwa of trees is used by Kuna people. One is to make house posts,another is to carve nuchukana, best understood as ‘figures of interiority’, which stand in a metonymic relation with the invisible and immortal component of persons, purpa, or ‘soul’, or ‘image’.
Amerindians regard trees as containers of ‘soul images’, and the association between hollow tree and uterus assumes new connotations. The process of ‘forming the baby’ in the mother’s uterus for the Kuna is akin to the proliferation of soul images inside trees. As trees for Kuna people host infinite primordial souls, when an elder man carves a nuchu he facilitates, as it were, the birth of a new subjectivity. (Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panama - Paolo Fortis)

Video by NAAUM
Cinematography by Patru Paunescu
Text excerpts from Cristopher Tilley - Interpreting Landscapes: Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology

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