This piece is part of the gloss / glossolalia collection curated by Kindred Haller.
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hyper_horror
my face—
is sealed in
thick layers of
gloss
glossy layers render my face
my lips my hair
my eyes
are open and
leaking
sights,
in artificial light
set into focus
bodily textures compressed into
foil skin / polymer
until surfaces
begin to
crease
catch
oil-slick
screen glare
preserving brightness
longer than
flash
white
overexposed
I flicker
wait
too late
signal/l0st⊃━☆ﾟ.· (ﾉ>ω<)ﾉ :。·::·ﾟ’★,。·::·ﾟ’☆ (⇀‸↼‶)⊃━☆ﾟ.·。ﾟ
liquid
seal
s
dream fragments /
death_drive。·::·ﾟ’☆
cam_girl II
session_057: you switch on
I’m switched off
I switch you
follow
loss
is produced under complex conditions
you stay
hooked on repeat
betrayed by statistics
you see
me as I see myself
you see me
as I see myself seen by you
I DON’T see you
/ I just wanted you to
nothing permits a definition of use
value depends on
me, exposed
don’t worry
my nudity functions as filter
just use me correctly
or don’t
DON’T
TOUCH
ME
continue
before I know
you
cross channels
compensated for by acquisition
you touch
wrong sites
wrong windows
wrong places
GET
OUT
I scream
stay
in crowded rooms
I monitor
my own delay
responses remain
unlikely
session_058: I switch
off
doomy_gloomy
storms
of singularities
&ashes
keep me up in dark rooms
blue light slips
unnoticed
next
wet eyes
sleepy
dolls
angel fever
clouds
of likeness
flow with
milk&
fill / empty
cart
visa
CANCEL
help
nothing is
itself
flushed
cheeks
messy
blush
blurred
###breaking
( reminders
for the clothes I never wore made from
synthetic fibers and the box of
distant cities flicker
candles smell like
milk&
ruins&
honey
HONEY
tapping
rubbing
brush
sh
sh
ashes
keep me
stuck
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Frederike Maas (@fr_emeta) is a writer and researcher based in Zurich. In her poetry, she explores situations where connections emerge, shift or break apart at the interface between the human and the machine. She is currently pursuing a PhD on early radio experiments and the ways media shape forms of relation and participation.
Yi-Ju Chou (@chouyiju) is a scenographer and visual artist based in Berlin. Her work explores the limits of different media and how they interact with one another to create experiences of a multi-mediated reality.