After releases on No Fun, Mexican Summer, Editions Mego, and Software–the label he runs with Joel Ford–Oneohtrix Point Never will put out R Plus Seven via Warp Records on October 1st. Today we can get a taste of the strange brew Daniel Lopatin will be cooking up with this extraordinary video for “Still Life (Excerpt)” from the artist Nate Boyce. Boyce and Lopatin collaborated on the Reliquary House installation at MoMA NYC in 2012, and both artists, via their perspective mediums, seem interested in exploring the liminal zones between concepts like “formed” and “unformed” or “organic” and “inorganic.” We are told:
Incongruous surfaces come together in a nexus of fetishistic material interactions. Cryptic ads for obscure objects, fragments of sculptural forms, and remnants of material surfaces are thrown into the mix with bulging semi-solids, unctuous quasi-liquids that are agitated into an animated flow. There is no resolution other than the suspension of these discrete elements from diverging orders: liquid, mineral, organic, consumerist, etc. Their interactions simply propose a language that is looked at as it inheres in the plasticity of texture. This is the language of morphogenesis?the process of approaching form?imagined as a pulsatile latency that stops short of emergence.
As well as watching the video for “Still Life (Excerpt)”, I suggest you take a visit to Oneohtrix Point Never’s website where the video is offered with an interesting interactive set-up. Definitely worth a visit! We’ve also included Oneohtrix Point Never live dates below…
Oneohtrix Point Never 2013 Tour:
September 17, 2013: Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral (Brooklyn, NY)
September 22, 2013: Sacrum Profanum (Krak?w, Poland)
September 27, 2013: Le Trabendo w/ Mondkopf (Paris, France)
September 28, 2013: Today?s Art Festival (The Hague, The Netherlands)
October 1, 2013: Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
October 3, 2013: Islington Assembly Hall (London, United Kingdom)
October 4, 2013: Berghain w/ Stellar Om Source + Lorenzo Senni (Berlin, Germany)
October 5, 2013: De Kreun (Kortrijk, Belgium)
November 16, 2013: Walker Art Center w/ Tim Hecker (Minneapolis, MN)
November 22, 2013 ? November 24, 2013: ATP Weekender @ Pontins Holiday Centre (East Sussex, United Kingdom)
