‘The Templum’
Kate Howe and Jessica Mardon. 2023, kraft paper, stitching, gold leaf, dust from the cave of the Oracle at Delphi, 15 minute immersive sound piece, 15 minutes of silence. Site for silent hours, readings, performances, dis- cussions, talks and transformations. Variable dimensions, site-specific installation for the Wild Parlour: Alternative Airport at RuptureXIBIT, London. Hands: Olivia England, Sally Minns, Sadie Wight, Tom Wight, Sylvia Flateau, Flo McCarthy, Leon Watts.
‘The Templum’ is a site-specific installation as part of the Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective’s group show ‘Alternative Airport’ at RuptureXIBIT, May 2023. The show featured the work of recent graduates and current students of the Royal College of Art. The Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective is led by painter and writer Jonathan Miles (PhD advisor at RCA). ‘The Templum’ functioned as a site for performance, spoken word and sound work throughout the show.
“This must be experienced in person. Photographs don’t at all do it justice - the immersion, the feeling of warmth, of vastness, of infinite, confounded space - but it’s everything Mike Nelson wasn’t for me - it’s not so direct, but it holds you as it unfolds and you find yourself lost. I am just amazed. I hope lots of people get to experience this in person before it comes down. It is just very, very special in person.” - KH, studio visitor, curator.
‘CONTACT’ Social Performance inside the ‘Templum’.
. “In this space [the Templum], there’s an extraordinary birth of passion, you have to have a passion to make a work like this. Its sound currents... it speaks of both memory and oblivion at the same time, a meeting point between memory and oblivion. Also, a way of remembering the great silence of which we come out of and go back into..”
-Excerpts from Jonathan Miles’ talk in ‘the Templum’.
Fly through of the ‘Templum’
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