In Heatsick‘s beat-laden and club haunted meditation on hypermodernity, “Re-Engineering”, we learn thru terse spoken maxims that “modern rubish is still life”, as a plain-spoken female narrator enumerates a string of conflating observations regarding our contemporary conditions. The video for the track, directed by Stefan Fähler and shot late last year in Antwerp, pairs the audio with a series of tidy tableaus in which model Tiffany Corsten appears alongside various bouquets of gorgeously arranged flowers, as she matter-of-factly delivers Heatsick’s “cybernetic poem”, while staring off past the camera at an awkward angle. While the effect is odd and a bit off-putting, there’s a disarming charm to the whole affair, as different registers of the “meaning” of modernity play off each other, like the stunning color and arrangement of the fauna relating to lines like “labor in the bodily mode/second annual trend report”, or Ms. Corsten’s sleek, classicly modern dresswear in relationship with Heatsick’s electronic, beat-oriented production. Re-Engineering is out now on Pan, and the Berlin-based artist is currently playing some rare US dates, so check them out after the video…
Heatsick Live US Dates February 2014:
2/12: Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
2/13: St. Louis, MO @ William A Kerr Foundation
2/14: New York, NY @ Issue Project Room
2/15: Boston, MA @ Goethe Institute
2/16: Philadelphia, PA @ Kung fu Necktie
2/21: Portland, OR @ Reed University
2/22: Los Angeles, CA @ Private Island
