HTSU: CLONES by Matilda Tjäder
Concert and album release
Friday April 8, 9pm
After two years away, HTSU Coop (formerly How To Show Up?) is pleased to present an album and a concert by artist Matilda Tjäder.
The album ‘Clones’ was commissioned and produced by HTSU and will premiere at San Serriffe on Friday, April 8 at 9 pm. On the same date the album will also become available as a digital download and CD on Bandcamp, on streaming platforms, and as a website developed by Aurélien Potier for the project. Listen to a sneak peak here: https://matildatjader.bandcamp.com/
On Saturday, April 9 HTSU invites you to listen to the full album in listening booths installed at San Serriffe during opening hours. Also on the 9th, and in collaboration with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, a special edition of “Clones” with exclusive material will be broadcast at 3 pm: https://www.jajajaneeneenee.com/shows/clones/
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‘Clones’ tells the story of a never-ending winter from the perspective of a narrator as she dreams in multiple states. In the absence of shifting seasons, dreaming becomes the primary state of transformation.
In four-hour daily cycles, this narrator wakes up, falls asleep, and dreams amidst a pervasive hum that takes possession of her body and summons a familiar visitor. Together, these bodies exist somewhere and elsewhere, gliding through landscapes, nurturing their fading memories into a new figuration. Taking place in a moment frozen in time, ‘Clones’ documents the memories of two sources and of a symbiosis becoming parasitical.
‘Clones’ is a fictional piece written and scored by Matilda Tjäder. The work was commissioned and produced by HTSU Cooperative between 2020 and 2022.
Matilda Tjäder is an artist building fictional worlds via text, sound, performance and moving image. In her work she develops experimental environments where the familiar interfaces with the unknown, the individual with the collective, and memories with the absence of sentience. By plugging into existing infrastructures she takes great pleasure in revising their invisible protocols and designs via storytelling, ambient installations and absurd scenarios.