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Rubber’s Sole
3-channel sound installation, 12:44 min (loop), 2025. Equipment: speakers, stands, wooden beams (180 cm high), speaker textile
Rubber’s Sole explores bodily hierarchies and how they can be unsettled. The title refers to the rubber sole–the point where weight meets the ground and grip emerges. In the encounter with the sounds, this grip shifts.
Three speakers are placed in the space; two on stands, one on the floor. The work is based on recordings of wet mud being pressed, released, and dropped. Thuds and sticky releases travel move between the standing speakers in an irregular pulse; at times isolated, at times clustered. The field thickens and thins, while the floor speaker occassionally recieves impacts, and carries a constant crackle.
The work remains porous. Gradually, traces from the moment of recording leak through–murmurs, a vibrating phone. The distances between the speakers form intervalls and shape the listening; close to the pulse, by the crackle, or inbetween. At the end of the loop, all speakers emit a crackling sound–clearing the field before it begins again.
The piece was created for the show Body at Konsthall C, curated by Queer Cohesion.