Exhibition
Immersive speaker installation
March 5, 2022
April 10, 2022

Poem of Ecstasy (Procession)

by
Photo: Nayara Leite/ Lydgalleriet

entrails in the lungs

and breath harnessed to the chest

when bleeding little death

stops the present

and shatters the spine of time

 

there is no end

where love and hate embrace

a tumultuous forge

 

one killing the other

one haunting

the other denying

 

joyous carnage

joyous like a wound

agony in convulsions

 

this is the torment

a violent quiver

Poem of Ecstasy (Procession) by Emilie Wright is a massive sonic experience leading into a ritual of circular procession between body and architecture. The moment of encounter is suspended in liminal flux, between what we are ceasing to be and what we are in the process of becoming: a sovereign body, a body of fluid, a body enmeshed, a body in wreckage, an open wound, gently healing and regenerating. Existing between exquisite pain and constant dull ache, between agony and ecstasy.

Poem of Ecstasy (Procession) is part of a project exploring themes of sadomasochism, catharsis and internal cosmology through architectures and psychoacoustics within experimental forms of field recording, vocals, audio signal processing and low frequency sound waves.

Part of Borealis' «Resonating Nordnes», Saturday March 20th. Supported by Bergen City Council, Arts Council Norway, The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists and Bergen Centre for Electronic Art. Poem of Ecstasy (Procession) is curated by Julie Lillelien Porter.