Published on
October 14, 2024
Category
Features
Composed in collaboration with musician anaiis.
The Vinyl Factory has released the soundtrack to Julianknxx’s new film, Untitled (ɔl bɔdi na sta).
Composed by Knxx in collaboration with musician anaiis and with additional music and vocals from THABO and Aron Kyne, Untitled (ɔl bɔdi na sta) is pressed on 180-gram heavyweight 12″ vinyl and is limited to 500 copies worldwide.
Now showing as part of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition at 180 Studios, Untitled (ɔl bɔdi na sta) is a creation from one of the artist’s journeys where he met performers, Karel Kouelany and Joël Assebako, who invited him to a performance of their work Systèmes, in Marseille in 2023.
Through his experience with the movement practice of Kouelany and Assebako, the artist decided to bear witness not just to the performance itself, but rather to his own encounter. In this, Julianknxx considers ourselves as worlds encountering other worlds – bodies of cosmic effluvia. The film’s scene occurs in an almost metaphysical space, with two men engaged in a ritual movement, rubbing what looks like salt upon one another.
Julianknxx’s work merges his poetic practice with films and performance; he engages in a form of active listening that at once seeks to find the poetry in the everyday while seeking to express the ineffable realities of human experiences. As one of the artists in residence at 180 Studios, Knxx has regularly collaborated with The Vinyl Factory, releasing the soundtrack to his work In Praise of Still Boys in 2021.
Housed in a bespoke “O Card” screen-printed slipcase, Untitled (ɔl bɔdi na sta) has an exclusive etching on side B and features film stills on the spot UV and embossed the outer and inner sleeves.
Order a copy of Untitled (ɔl bɔdi na sta) now.
