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.