MATERIAL by Aude Van Wyller & Lucy Van

Words reach for something in the image. Sounds reach for something in the word.
Accents of Hilda Doolittle and Barbara Guest find felicitous fellow travellers in other loosely referenced artists, including Richard Tuttle and June Felter. *Absorbed by the image, the viewer speaks in poetic fragments. These develop their own associative logics, in a surreal realisation of Ouyang Yu’s notion of the life cycle of a poem. Here the subject is between states, living through superposition and transparency. One thing becomes another. *Christine and Lucy illustrate the reality that lies in relationships, the reality that is endlessly mutable. 
From Aude’s perspective, there were keywords written and pronounced by Lucy which triggered themes to explore for her: auditory device, anaphora, stance, or this sentence "in the next room someone is calling"... those mentions of the listening itself, the machine, the prosthesis to help listening, the tension to hear through a wall, this representation, the quote of the technique of writing itself... they were all bringing to an obsessive question: how to picture someone's listening in a sound piece? How to make the listener understand they are actually listening to someone else's perception? In other words, how to reproduce a space and a point of hearing in music?
To Aude the magic of Lucy's text is connected to this very question, which was a reference to built around a shattered space of fields recording and recomposed effected sounds, reverberations, melodies, playing the character she seems to speak about... this "woman voice" coming from outside, the other (the singing versus the talking?), the source of the sound we are looking for and desire to see but has to imagine.
The fact that this publication could also be taken as an audiobook, relating to the photographs by Christine was also an aspect to deal with while composing, imagining a reader looking at these images of the city and reading the text, recomposing the sound, anchoring, layering the soundtrack to it, as we do with walkmans.

permanent draft is all womxn label and imprint founded by Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello highlighting works with a certain taste for fragmentary, irrepressible creative eruption and lo-fi experiments; leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary