SALOME DUAL EXPERIENCE - VOL 2

VOL 1 - INSTALLATION

"When I healed I felt empty. But soon I realised that it’s the calmness and strength that simply feel dull and boring. I realised that I’m simply strong and calm enough to drop all the years of living multiple lives for others - like a boat with no sail in the middle of the ocean, giving into the wind. I finally felt like a woman, not a little girl anymore. I don’t need to hide behind metaphors and hints. I can feel that people around me know they can find shelter by my side and that’s what I want them to feel like when visiting Netherworld.

You can come close to her and see what she’s been through. She wears a dress we all wear every day - veils of identities thrown onto her for years, lives multiple lives that are not hers, that are forced onto her - to fit in. Veils of supervision, norms, expectations, opinions. She finally rejects it all - and loses each veil of as she goes through hell. Suddenly at the bottom of Underworld she realises that the last time she was herself - she was a child. She has no coping mechanisms to find herself.

The story of Salome is similar to any katabasis - especially descend of Innanna. the Akkadian version of the myth - Innanna (Ishtar) returns to Earth through the same seven gates she passed through to reach the Underworld and receives each of her veils back on the way up. This time veils are her own.

VOL 2 - RAVE

RAGE AWAKENING - POWER - RETURN TO EARTH FULLY DRESSED

7 GATES - 7 VEILS - DANCE

The techno rave - is that underworld. The destination of Salome / Inanna - the centre of her journey and a stop between supervision and freedom.

Sound of rage, vulnerability, freedom, angst, relief, empowerment.

Everyone in there shares something in common - the need for underground, underworld. Need for solitude and independence in a crowd of people with a similar journey. To anonymously unite in the raw, immersive rhythm (stripped of harmony and words). The rhythm that never stops - their reflection is almost never interrupted by silence or light. No need for interaction - just wordless company in veils of mist and darkness. Everyone exists in their own cell of expression. They choose if the music will make them think or kill their thoughts - and lose themselves in it without feeling watched for as long as they want - and return to Earth when they’re ready.

A rave is an installation too. It’s a glimpse of infinity. I see installation as a universe that that is installed in a space - brought to be experienced in a location that ’s accessible and available. It’s hard to accept that music in installations is considered non-linear and eternal, since we cannot stop or control time. I decided to not desperately defend that concept - even the smallest sounds have a physical duration. I decided to simply create opportunities for reflection and to let the music have narrative if it happens.

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