CLARK here dust and hair brings together two long-term projects:
Boris Hauf’s CLARK and Litó Walkey’s Come here dust and hair.
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Disnaming descriptions from the edges and behind us,
leaving us in stablelessness, between intervals in relation that turn observation into particle
like an invisible dance
like the soft rigor of daily walks
like DJing with things in the middle
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CLARK is a unity of three interactive levels: metaphysical, transient and phenomenological. It started in 2005 as a solo CD project commissioned for London label Sijis and was re-released on vinyl in 2016 on Shameless Records. CLARK2 came out on double LP in 2020 also on Shameless and was also featured in the short film called “Island Destinity” (by Hetzer/Kaufmann/Hauf) in 2021. CLARK3, released 2024, is digital only.
Thematically CLARK fantasizes about extraterrestrial pasts, examines our earthly present (‘digital natives’, climate-collapse, a world of automation in which we voluntarily give up control to avoid work) and imagines a futuristic interstellar co-existence.
The synth-based beat-oriented science fiction space adventure juxtaposes disassembled post-industrial minimal technoid music with modernist contemporary experimentation. It plays with processual repetition, the imagined and calculated potential of iteration, disintegration, delay and modulation.
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Come here dust and hair is a series of performative practices that have appeared as an intimate way to bring audience into a space; a shared exercise in choreography, performance and artistic research contexts; a spoken language audio track; a risograph-printed reading companion exhibited online and in a gallery; an exhibition-like situation of lingering longer with traces of processes; a performance with accomplices; and a solo. In all its forms, it is dedicated to conditions for collaboration, translation and proliferation.
The material that will be performed for CLARK here dust and hair attends to notions of ‘wrong writing’ (written elaborations of supposedly unworthy things). The imaginative space between pieces of language and intersections of details opens a distinct process of collective observation, qualified by more than a single identifiable subject.
For seeing things with me, many thanks to too many colleagues to name here.
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BIOS:
Boris Hauf is a musician and composer currently touring his synth-based sci-fi space adventure solo project CLARK, the concert/performance CLARK here dust and hair with Litó Walkey, and as keyboarder with the legendary Austrian indie rock band Naked Lunch. He runs the politically and ecologically committed independent record label Shameless and lives in Berlin.
Litó Walkey (GR/CAN) is a Berlin-based artist whose work operates collaboratively through writing and choreography. Her performance and publishing projects engage collective structures that energize affective circulations of sense (and self) drifting. She teaches and advises choreographic writing internationally and is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Practices at Gothenburg University.
Litó Walkey and Boris Hauf have worked together since 2001 in a wide range of collaborative performances, and presented their own works internationally: Wings raised to the second power (2004), The Missing Dance No. 7 (2005), instanded i turn (2006), Like that, like this (2008), Come here dust and hair (2018).
https://hauf.klingt.org/ & https://litowalkey.org/
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Sep 27, 2024 MORPHINE RAUM, BERLIN
Oct. 19, 2024 RABBIT/DUCK FESTIVAL, GOTHENBURG
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