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Taking the reparation and servicing of a 1970’s tape recorder as its point of departure, Noise floor intersects the development of recording technologies with ideas of a sonic presence. With the repair manual as an informing framework, the work intermingles appropriated advertising blurbs with HFE’s own writing; technical photography with photographic abstraction. Combining these different voices, the publication examines notions of a sonic-self, through the recording industry’s race for higher sensitivity and lower noise.

Archival box containing a seven-inch vinyl record, a series of fascimile concertina prints by Walter Verwoert and a book with an essay by Jan Verwoert.

Walter and Jan Verwoert’s new edition Voice Pieces — Wo soll das Lachen übernachten? pairs a seven-inch record featuring six pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of corresponding typographic inventions by Walter Verwoert used as scores for the recordings. Collaged from found material — letters sliced from local adverts and daily newspapers with a compass cutter — Walter’s two-dimensional language-based artworks are arranged across long scrolls of paper in a calmly factual, yet free and playful manner, much like the stencilled marks of a player piano roll.

Weekly Planner I and Weekly Planner II chronicle Norwegian artist Silje Iversen Kristiansen’s experience of daily life between 2021 and 2023. Containing a vast series of drawings based on smartphone photographs taken over the span of two years, both books provide a deep awareness of time, in part through the depiction of relaxed moments that consider daily activities and routines such as gardening, cooking, reading, socialising, and thinking.

Saskia Holmkvist´s monograph revolves around her film Margaret (Back Translation). The work weaves together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac, and speculative. It involves a dialogue that speaks back to the evanescent nature of a past performance, acting as a filter through which to create new memories. The book acts in similar ways, connecting anidiosyncratic journey to a film.

Dataton Dialogues is a collaborative project by Anna Clawson, Henrik Follesø Egeland, Silje Iversen Kristiansen and Tris Vonna-Michell. It grew out of a necessity, a need to recall and reinterpret a handful of analogue projection technologies.