Metabolic Riffs — nova Milne

id pop

Breaking The 4th Wall

Mystic Mnemonic

Underground Interiors / Metabolic Riffs
2025

4K video & sound Installation with quadraphonic sound, 05:03 Mins.

Original score by nova Milne with suckling infant, and Tim Bruniges on drums.

Installation views, Metabolic Riffs at Syrup Contemporary

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A myth leaks from a drop of mammalian milk.

A flow of matter, spore-ing bodies, plant and skies doomloop labor inequities and metabolic rift.

Fatigued by signals, they circulate in an underground interiority, while parallel trouble plumes just out of view.

Watched within a network of feeds, consuming their own image, they too are consumed.

Their central nervous system drums through a cycle of regulatory impulses as it filters input; attempting a soft pull toward the recumbent horizontal..

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Nightswimming, an accompanying text by Jake Starr can be found here