Stills from "Pigeon Hole" can be enjoyed within the pages of Found You Magazine Issue 4. Secure your copy today at foundyoumag.com.
Rea Saxena’s contribution to Issue 4 is a film titled "Pigeon Hole", which we spoke about in our previous episode. In print, it exists as a series of stills pulled from the film but in its original format, it contains music by the artist Ivory Toothpaste. The following is a conversation with Ivory Toothpaste, led by Rea, about how the music used in "Pigeon Hole" came to be. It marks the first time the two of them had ever had a conversation with one another beyond the emails they had been exchanging for months.
Rea Saxena is a multimedia artist based on Coast Salish territories. Their work reconfigures analogue mediums (Hi8 tape, 16mm and Super 8 film) into hypnotic digital media experiences akin to psychic exploration. Through colliding old and new media, Rea investigates their own relationship to dysphoria, identity, and disembodiment.
Ivory Toothpaste is a sound artist exploring the archive, memory, and confabulation. She primarily focuses on sample-based work, indebted to the paths walked by Philip Jeck, Maria Chávez, and Daniel Lopatin. Her work is available on Bandcamp.
View "Pigeon Hole" by Rea Saxena.
Additional music featured in this episode is In the Calm and Glowing Hour by Ivory Toothpaste.
Found You Magazine is produced on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Recording and audio engineering by Thomas Hoeller at Terrestrial Sound Studios. Produced by Natalie Dusek. Theme music by Jackson Burzynski. Show art by Post Projects Inc. Found You Magazine is published by Kolton Procter.
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This episode is supported by The Cinematheque. Find tickets and the full schedule at thecinematheque.ca.