Amber (or Elektron)
2025
Amber (or Elektron) explores the wisdom of the elder, which is transmitted like the electric spark coming from the ancient material of amber stone - a material known for its animating properties, which made the old Greek call it by the name of 'elektron'.
Binding together two seemingly distant musical traditions, lullaby and reggaeton, the self initiated genre of the “lullaeton”* delves into the deep corporeal relation to rocking or cradling of the body as a way of soothing and comforting. Protagonists in the other two chapters of the lullaeton project include my child-hood history teacher and my lover - represented solely by their hands performing curated manual gestures. Amber (or Elektron) explores the character of the grandmother, whose care and nourishment I consider defining in learning about the earth's metabolisms.
*lullaeton is imagined in a long term collaboration with composer Nicolás Sánchez aka nyksan
2025
Amber (or Elektron) explores the wisdom of the elder, which is transmitted like the electric spark coming from the ancient material of amber stone - a material known for its animating properties, which made the old Greek call it by the name of 'elektron'.
Binding together two seemingly distant musical traditions, lullaby and reggaeton, the self initiated genre of the “lullaeton”* delves into the deep corporeal relation to rocking or cradling of the body as a way of soothing and comforting. Protagonists in the other two chapters of the lullaeton project include my child-hood history teacher and my lover - represented solely by their hands performing curated manual gestures. Amber (or Elektron) explores the character of the grandmother, whose care and nourishment I consider defining in learning about the earth's metabolisms.
*lullaeton is imagined in a long term collaboration with composer Nicolás Sánchez aka nyksan
4K video, stereo sound.
7min35sec
starring: Emmy Bangert-Leerink
sound composition: Nicolás Sánchez
sound mixing: Diego Andrés Contento
master of photography: Tomasz Skibicki
editing: Tomasz Skibicki and Vibeke Mascini
color grading: Kyulim Kim
image installation view at Digits, a solo exhibition curated by Gerda van de Glind at Kunstenlab, NL
*please send an email if you would like a link to view and listen the entire video
image 1-3 stills from the video image 4 installation view at Kunstenlab by Koen Kievits
7min35sec
starring: Emmy Bangert-Leerink
sound composition: Nicolás Sánchez
sound mixing: Diego Andrés Contento
master of photography: Tomasz Skibicki
editing: Tomasz Skibicki and Vibeke Mascini
color grading: Kyulim Kim
image installation view at Digits, a solo exhibition curated by Gerda van de Glind at Kunstenlab, NL
*please send an email if you would like a link to view and listen the entire video
image 1-3 stills from the video image 4 installation view at Kunstenlab by Koen Kievits
