Nikola Stoyanov Music for a New Night Life (2019)

Music for a New Night Life

Talyan Art Fest, Varna

06.2019

photo-book

Music for a New Night Life deals with Mark Fishers concept of hauntology and lost futures. It visually shows a cymatic matrix of a city in flux, of its dreams and nightmares and finally of its reality filled with nostalgia. The tidal feeling of turbulence wroth by the ancient currents of the Black Sea returns us to a state of Freudian unconsciousness, a downcast euphoria, somatically revealing the subject to the base nostalgia of Oedipal separation.

Betrayed promises of youth culture open up the scene to snapshots of melancholic ravers in the throw of mid-life crises. Beyond the death-drive, what was mechanical becomes organic. Heat facilitates cymatic scribbles on a canvas of brutalist grey skies, the subject in drowned in a semiotic fog, hyperkinesis wakes stray desire, the city is dancing to its own rhythm.

21x15cm softcover | edition: 120

The full photo-zine can be found here.

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