A Place, A Word

Installation views of A Place, A Word, 2018 at de Singel, Antwerp, 2018

Rebekka Löffler (ceramics, poem) and Ruben de Gheselle (sound composition) with BL!NDMAN (musicians)

Visual and acoustic installation:
Glazed ceramics in different sizes (between approx. 20 and 85 cm in length);
Sound composition for four saxophones and a spoken poem;
Varnished vinyl underlay of about 14 square metres;
Speakers.

MOLECULE was a three-year-long project between the musicians of BL!NDMAN and the artists of HISK. The project found its hightlight in a presentation with different concerts at de Singel in Antwerp in 2018. Within this framework, the artist Rebekka Löffler collaborated with the composer Ruben de Gheselle, and the musicians of BL!NDMAN. They together created the audio-visual installation A Place, A Word, 2018.

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leading things close together
letting them sense themselves.

to let things rest
letting them rest
letting them grasp themselves
to let them in themselves
letting them border.

to bring one thing to the other
letting things sprout and then grasp them freshly
letting them conflate to new thoughts
letting them tie together.

to devise oneself anew,
letting oneself recognize newly.

to introduce myself into
sense your feelings
feeling you.

pondering for
conceiving you.

in order to dream of the one with the other
in order to hem your thoughts with my thoughts.

in order to contrive

a place, a word,
a space, a resort.

where I want to pass forwards
where I want to pass away.

where I can dream
where I can run
where I can scream
where I can sing
where I can dance.

Rebekka Löffler

(This poem is part of the audio-visual installation A Place, A Word, 2018, a collaboration between Rebekka Löffler and Ruben de Gheselle with BL!NDMAN. The magenta-coloured sections of the poem are included as whistled speech in Ruben de Gheselle’s sound composition.)