we are opposite
like that
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Purchase the vinyl here
Past Event
24 November 2022, 6.30-9pm
Listening session from 7
The we are opposite like that vinyl was produced by Forma, with support from the Arts Council England and Focal Point Gallery.
we are opposite like that
Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser
Join us at Presse Books for the launch and celebration of we are opposite like that: Music and Poetry from the Polar Circles, the newly released vinyl by Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser, produced by Forma. The vinyl includes a limited edition poster and text score. There will be a collective listening session of the record after which you are welcome to relax at Presse Books and meet the artists.
The first side of the release features an original composition for string quartet, inspired by field recordings from the Arctic and Antarctic circle, composed by David Soin Tappeser. The music was conceived as a score to accompany Himali Singh Soin’s eponymous video work we are opposite like that (2019), which recounts the tale of the omnipresent anxiety in Victorian England of an imminent glacial epoch. The disorienting fear of an invasive periphery sent shudders through the colonial enterprise, the tremors of which can be felt in contemporary times.
The second side comprises Subcontinentment, a manifesto that posits a South Asian Futurism, anti-chronicling the geopoetic links between the poles and the Indian subcontinent. The extra-terrestrial echoes of stones skimming on frozen lakes sound like firecrackers, blackening the air. The soundscape is set against the image of an alien figure from the equator traversing the blank, oblivious whiteness, slowly transforming into glimmering ice.
we are opposite like that is an ongoing series of interdisciplinary works that comprises fictional mythologies for the poles, told from the non-human perspective of an elder that has witnessed deep time: the ice. The video work, we are opposite like that (2019), was originally co-commissioned and produced by Forma and Frieze for the Frieze Artist Award 2019. Read more about the commision here.
The we are opposite like that vinyl was produced by Forma, with support from the Arts Council England and Focal Point Gallery.
Tracklisting:
1. Portals [2:17]
2. Erratics [2:32]
3. Transfigurations [2:03]
4. Emergences [2:20]
5. Afterlives [2:22]
6. Subcontinentment [10:22] :
i. South Asian Futurism
ii. Rest
iii. The Too-muchness of Life
iv. Indirect Vision
v. Pleasure, even at the end
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Photo: Forma
Details
Purchase the vinyl here
Past Event
24 November 2022, 6.30-9pm
Listening session from 7
The we are opposite like that vinyl was produced by Forma, with support from the Arts Council England and Focal Point Gallery.