By Patsy Lassbo in collaboration with Mika Kastner Johnson, Ruby Nilsson and Billy Morgan.
fugue
From Latin: fuga, related to both fugere (“to flee”) and fugare (“to chase”)
Music: a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
Psychiatry: A dissociative fugue is a temporary state in which a person has memory loss and ends up in an unexpected place. People that show this symptom cannot remember who they are or details about their past.
fugue is a drama between self, body and world; a play for voids; a cave rave; a heretical consciousness; a fractal movement; a virginal space; a sludge situation; an attention reassignment surgery; a poetics of liminality; a bad analogy; a sideways time; a kenophile dwelling; a sentient siege; a bewildered wandering.
“Take over space. Take over machines. Take over chemistry. Play from inside the signs, the tech, the real estate. At least for a bit. There’s no outside anymore, but maybe we can find some fractal world on the inside.” – McKenzie Wark, Raving (2023)
Mingling with the writings of Maxi Wallenhorst and McKenzie Wark in the field of trans*aesthetics, the work fugue attempts to feel the space-times produced when the self, the body and the world keep detaching from one another. Where do you go when there is nowhere to go? For some of us the answer is: Nowhere – not too bad for a kenophile: someone who has an affinity for voids or empty spaces.
photos by Thomas Lenden
Mika Kastner Johnson is a graphic designer working in Sweden and the Netherlands.
Billy Morgan is a performer and performance maker from the UK.
Ruby Nilsson is a playwright and artist based in Copenhagen.
