Paul Schütze; Emma

to that inner dialogue with oneself that we call conscience, that unavailable space in which people encounter themselves and in which responsibility arises,,,

The video work ‘Emma’ was recorded by Gvoon Arthur Schmidt with Emma at a different location on Thursday, 8 August 2024 at 15:49.

The audible sound of the video work ‘Emma’ is based entirely on music realised by Paul Schütze with the title ‘Without Thought’. The music was conceived and realised by him for an installation work for a video projection (stereo scent and stereo sound). The music includes contributions by Ko Ishikawa (Sho), Daniel Pennie (guitars), Raoul Björkenheim (cello) and Paul Schütze (electronics) himself. In 2018, the installation ‘Without Thought’ was shown for the first time at the ‘Mackintosh Lane’ gallery in London.

Paul Schütze is a London-based Australian artist who has been working in the fields of sound, photography, video and installation for forty years. He was a founding member of the Australian experimental band Laughing Hands and Phantom City, an international collective of musicians working both live and virtually from various locations around the world. He has performed sound and film works in over a dozen countries and has released over thirty albums of original music. Over the decades he has collaborated with Bill Laswell, Simone de Haan, Toshinori Kondo, Clive Bell, David Toop, Dirk Wachtaeler, Jah Wobble, Raoul Björkenheim, Andrew Hulme, Max Eastly, Robert Hamson, Thomas Köner, Lol Coxhill and Alex Buess. His artworks have been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums. He has also collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien. In 2014, Paul began developing olfactory elements for his exhibition Silent Surface and created a perfume called In Libro De Tenebris. In 2016, he founded the perfume house Paul Schütze Perfume with his partner Chris Rickwood. In 2022 they moved from London, where Paul has lived for thirty years, to the Kent coast. Paul is currently working on a book about sensory ecology.

More detailed information on Paul Schütze's extensive oeuvre and work can be found on his own website at: http://www.paulschutze.com/. His previous publications can also be found at: https://paulschutze.bandcamp.com/music.

The 64-minute music ‘Without Thought’ was released and published in 2020 in a limited edition of 300 copies as a CD on the label ‘aufabwegen’. Further information can be found at: https://www.aufabwegen.de/label/archi... or directly at: https://www.aufabwegen.de/ In addition, all previous releases by ‘aufabwegen’ can be found at https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/.

Trapped in the depths of the innermost, where darkness and silence merge. Alone, isolated in a room, inside, where being is only a fleeting breath, barely tangible, barely perceptible, only palpable. Sounds waft through the darkness, everywhere, in your head, in your body, in every cell of your being. They echo, pulsate, roar, break through the last remnants of silence, tug at your thoughts, your mind. No real peace, just an endless endurance, a standstill in the middle of time. The boundary between dream and reality becomes blurred; everything loses form and meaning. What has happened feels like an endless labyrinth without an exit, in a kind of embryo. One form. The origin. It is the steps in a circle, without a tangible destination, trapped in a search that has no beginning and no end. Only a hope for sleep, for all to fall asleep, but the hope remains unfulfilled as one falls deeper, lost in echoes. These echoes, not just their own, but the whispered voices of others who are also seeking the same path into the darkness. A jumble of voices, of feelings, of memories, which envelop everything inside you like a fog until you can hardly breathe. The echoes inside merge with the voices of others that you can't see but that you can feel; it's like an endless symphony of pain, doubt and unfulfilled desires. And in the midst of all this, an incessant search for something that can hardly be named, a kind of hope for peace, the end of the noise, the end of having to endure. But everything is just a hope, and the darkness that surrounds you doesn't allow any answers, just more questions that keep going round in circles.

You can find more and further information on the video work ‘Emma’ at: https://www.gvoon.de/paul-schuetze-em... or other video works created for this project directly here:    / @gvoonart  

(Rec. 06.01 08.08.2024)

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