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06/01/21 • Free Form : Samuel Brzeski

Oration on rhythm — Cycle one: Void and Event 

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06/01/21 • Free Form : Samuel Brzeski

Oration on rhythm — Cycle one: Void and Event 

Throughout 2020, artist and writer Samuel Brzeski has been a writer in residence at Lydgalleriet in Bergen. During his residency he has been developing a series of free-form texts dealing with sound and listening. The below text has been created by Brzeski in collaboration with Lydgalleriet, and is included as part of CAS' thematic series on sound art. In this text Brzeski writes about his understanding of rhythm in relation to time, space and the human body. The text also has it's own rhythm in form, words and resonance with the reader.

* This text was first published at Lydgalleriet.no

References:

Berardi, Franco, Breathing: Chaos and Poetry (Semiotext(e), 2018)

Cage, John, Silence: Lectures and Writings (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)
Ikoniadou, Eleni, The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media and the Sonic (MIT Press, 2014)

Guattari, Felix, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm (Indiana University Press, 1995)

Nabokov, Vladimir, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage, 1990)

Samuel Brzeski (UK/NO) is an artist, writer and researcher currently reading, writing, walking and living in Bergen. He studied English Literature at University of Sheffield, took an MA at The Art Academy, University of Bergen and participated in the Mountain School of Art programme in Los Angeles. Samuel’s visual works and performances have been shown in various galleries and theatres across Europe, and he has published several artist books. Additionally, he co-runs the art collective and publishing platform TEXST, and currently teaches at The Art Academy, UiB, and Bergen School of Architecture.

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