Bil Sabab

statement: Are avant-garde practices still important to you?

It doesn’t matter. All of them are tools. You need to know how to use them and why. Whether it is still working for innovation or not is a question of context and perspective.
The notion of importance is in essence sentimental and in order to have sentiments for certain artistic practices, they need to be part of the fabric of the cultural identity.
Because I’m Ukrainian, I might as well be an extraterrestrial in terms of perception of said cultural heritage. For the most part, my cultural identity enables a considerable distance from any artistic practice past and present – i don’t have any sentiments for it and so i can apply them any way i see fit. It’s a blessing and a curse rolled in one.

project: Roadrage GridMatrix

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Based on the poems of Bil Sabab’s book Roadrage. The poems are remixed into GridMatrix Barcode which turn them into an asemic glyphs.

gallery Roadrage GridMatrix // gallery

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  • Roadrage GridMatrix

project: Phantom Pains

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These texts are doing something different. In the course of a recording sessions for “In a Silent Way” – Miles Davis asked John McLaughlin to play guitar “as though you didn’t know how to play the guitar”. That’s what i do.

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Momentary Awkwardness
– 1:11

ZING! – Bzzzzzzz
The Move

Dum-Dum
Bude
Shudders
Potato Clouds

“Say NO”

“ZZZZ’s”
TX “CCCCCCs” – 9:02
Gasp – 2:06
(O.U.A.T.) TU KTU

Heartbeats Accelerating
Ooh Poo Pah Doo

Gradually Going Tornado
Strike, Strike, Strike

white fafafa

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