Ocean & Wavz, "Lost & Found (Tilted)", 2023, photograph © Ocean & Wavz - OW
What we call “reality” is an already-made construction and representation, codified by language, education, culture, history, ideology… Tilted as a poem, music and image is trying to question “reality” as a human claim to tell the “One & Only Truth” about out the world, infiltrating language (text, sound, image) in its own gaps, distortions, interstices, inclinations, ruptures, undulations, (dis)alignments, ruptures, links, overlaps… offering the perception of reality as an evolving change, an upside down body, a tongue in cheek, a sound to wave, and simply a practice of life embracing all its accidents, encounters, traumas, fantasies and experiences, opening up to non anthropocentric perspectives.
The poem Tilted was published in the artist book Tobias Rehberger, If You Don’t Use Your Eyes to See, You Will Use Them to Cry, London, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2023.
taste…
your pupil
somehow stretch…
your soul
watch with…
your sex
Eat…
the picture
un-play…
your sounds
dis-play…
your emptiness
wash…
your colors
run..
your tongue
sing…
anger
recycle…
words
relax…
flesh
spice…
images
chat…
freely
twist…
the look
drink…
propaganda
remember…
your friend
a vase
a flower
celebrate…
the invisible
emotion
dive into…
the pixel
seat onto…
the framed
contradiction
see…
the wall
poke…
the screen
dismantle…
the sign
re-phrase…
the codified
action
the branded
smell…
the authoritarian
blow…
passion
smash…
distort…
cut…
reshape…
burn…
art not is a joke
raw systems rough alienation
lick common fluids friction
hell yes take time to fall… high
crawl… your brain on the ground beyond
language rub protrusions flavors
Invisible corners museum heavy
fragile
light eyelids love
blow no control
shadow caress locked
whisper
vibrations
in between
translation
passage
visitor
non-identity
fire surface sliding
a moment breath the strange
swallow skin under
cheek whispers hope
end here
flow nowhere
off
life space
pixel element solid
rejected ingested manipulated
same hate other
liquid
simple
with S out
