Published:
December 8, 2016
For the third exchange in the Commend See series conducted by RVNG, Berlin-based artist / musician Melanie Velarde fashions ten anthropological sensory excursions as Parcel, the aural component to Christin Ripley’s metaphysical marble dye practice; his installation will be opened next Thursday, December 15 @ Commend.
Tomes evoked and bespoke, Velarde pairs field recordings from her immediate and traveled surroundings with found (or lost?) musical objects, layering the two into improvisatory analog music under the moniker TEMPORARYARCHIVES.
Velarde invokes the lonely spaces where transcendent collections of objects sit in wait. From within and outside of this spiritual storage space, Velarde animates the infinite clutter through intense momentary interactions with her surroundings. This parcel, another from Velarde’s intimate archive, remains at risk of being swallowed back into an immense time and space, but finds physicality for this loving moment.
An artist edition of twelve unique LPs featuring marble dyed, silkscreened sleeves by Ripley will be available at Commend, alongside a cassette edition of Parcel. An exhibition celebrating the collaboration and exhibiting new pieces by Ripley and projections and performance by Velarde will take place on Thursday, December 15.