The third and remaining instalment of a video trilogy accompanying the Haunter Data founder’s new album for PAN, X, wheel, sees three radiant figures communing with the shadowy spirits of untamed nature in an intricate plant language.
On X, wheel, the brand new album from artist and Haunter Data founder Heith, the very texture of human consciousness is rendered as each malleable and nebulous, one thing that shifts and warps because of the artist’s continued exploration of esoteric notions of actuality. His first album for PAN manifests a follow that pulls on each the religious and the creative, folding in components of psychedelia, psytrance, freak folks, stoner steel, harsh noise and early digital music right into a singular sonic language, impressed in equal elements by organic types of plant communication and the logic of desires. This concentrate on various strategies of communication extends out of phonetic expression and into speculative inscription with Angel’s Hair, an alphabet of vegetal glyphs and mycological characters devised by Heith in collaboration with the visible artist Pietro Agostoni. The alphabet shares its identify with the folkloric substance siliceous cotton, a sticky gelatinous substance of unknown origin, claimed by believers and zealots to be produced throughout UFO visitations and miraculous manifestations of the Virgin Mary, respectively. This unusual language supplies one path into the world of X, wheel, and the nightmarish overgrown ecosystem of one of many album’s most unsettling tracks, ‘A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge.’
Following three bioluminescent figures shifting round a shadowy dreamscape, ‘A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge’ embodies a world wherein the pure world produces a violent, predatory response, a nod to the titular carnivorous plant. Probing the interaction between this deadly connotation, Venus because the Roman god of affection and wonder and as one of many closest planets to earth, Heith conjures a world wherein liminal realities are illuminated – the unattainable proximity of the planet evoking an unknowable house, the love deity gesturing in direction of new modes of religion. The denizens of the world of ‘A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge’ emit an interior radiance, but this mild doesn’t journey upwards, transcendent of bodily flesh, however as an alternative appears of the unkempt earth, glowing spores that recommend these figures have sprung up from the very soil and sand over which they now tread. Just like the Angel’s Hair alphabet, these beings tackle a bodily kind acquainted but unknowable to us, moulded within the shapes of our bodies, but smeared with a life-giving substance of a unique nature, the pure world taking again management of its inhabitants with ghostly guardians, stalking their birthplace surging with all of the promise of violence of the Venus Flytrap.
A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge follows Your Component (a spell of equality) and Dero because the third a part of a video trilogy accompanying X, wheel. In Your Component, historic ritual follow and cursive script are illuminated by laser mild, a recent excavation of religious custom and fantasy. In Dero, unusual scrolling visuals give us glimpses of dystopian city environments, occult graffiti and carnival enjoyable home imagery suggesting a reworked setting of phantasm and deceit. Within the third and remaining half, Heith reaches previous the summoning ceremony and the disfiguring tips, delving deeper right into a darker, extra pure house. The denizens of A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge transfer with unknowable efficiency, a thriller solely amplified by the concluding strands of Angel’s Hair, a brand new visible language for brand new realm of existence. Skilled as a hazy cloud of shadow and loam, the dream reaches again into the waking world, casting bizarre shadows on the boundaries between flesh and earth.
‘A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge’ is taken from X, wheel, which is out now on PAN. For extra details about Heith you could find him on Instagram and at Haunter Data.
‘A Venus Flytrap within the circus lodge’ Credit:
Video – Heith & Nicola Tirabasso
Digicam – Nicola Tirabasso
Assistant – Leone Ciocchetti
Lettering – Pietro Agostoni
3D – DECLINO (@andrea.declino & @gvn908)
Actors – Alison Bizzi @ultracreature, Clara Grilanda, Thomas Venezia
Make Up – Bruno Fontana
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