“Reading the texts that belong to my performances – steps, the sounds of papers being turned, the sounds of fabrics being touched, the sound of bodies passing.”
This first artist record by Romy Nína Rüegger is based on three artistic projects and the performances related to them. Departing from specific archive materials, oral tradition, site visits and experiential knowledges, the works deal with questions of presence and actualisations, and the emergence of social power relations. Artistic inquiries that keep coming back, asking their questions. Ongoing conversations with pasts that were not ment to be here. Spaces fought for, persisting. Traces that can fundamentally change our understanding of who we are. The record is following the personal exhibition “The Moving Body, The Listening Body – Moving through wires of wind” by Romy Nína Rüegger at Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, 2020–2021.
“Moving Through” contains tracks based on the performances “Si tu vivais ici tu serais déjà chez toi”, “A Fabric in Turkey Red” and “Approaching Ultra Light”. Including as well a booklet with performance scripts, drawings, and visual research materials.
Produced and published by Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe and Apparent Extent, Cologne. Recorded by Robin Rutenberg, Norbert Lang and Romy Nína Rüegger. Mastering by Florian Meyer. Graphic Design by Rosen Eveleigh. Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes – NEUStart Kultur, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Burgauer Stiftung.
“rest without a name” (on ruins) is a sound work by poly phem, an extendable body currently consisting of Esther Vorwerk, André Veigas P., and Martian M. Mächler. By means of somatic writing methods and relational, anti-essentialist listening practices, they explore questions of dependency within collaborations, seeking gentler, more considerate ways of working together. The sound work invites listeners into a resonant space of polyphony, where voices intertwine with the grumbling echoes of shared bodies. At the release event, poly phem will read an excerpt from “rest without a name (on ruins)”.
The publication follows the exhibition “Solo” Martian M. Mächler with Esther Vorwerk & André Veigas P. at the Kunstmuseum Lucerne (2023–2024), for which the sound work was collaboratively produced. The exhibition “Solo” was kindly supported by Kulturförderung Kanton Schwyz, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung.
