Commissioned for an artist residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, the Sacro Bosco tape explores various themes from the region’s holy mountain of Monteluco (Latin: lucus - a wood sacred to Jupiter), and its myths of saintly protection.
Taking form as an installation in Piazza della Genga during a full moon, over 50 hand-drawn talismans invoking the spirits of the surrounding forest and beyond were nailed to the walls to create a 'universal sacred space'.
Whilst the use of protective paper talismans (ofuda/fulu) is typical to Daoist practice, Sacro Bosco attempts to observe and unify the local collective religious beliefs of Catholicism and the Pagan god Jupiter. Inspired by a tale about the patron saint of Spoleto, Pontianius, and how in 1703, on his feast day, earthquakes affected the entire region of Italy, save Spoleto.
This is a limited run of 50 cassette tapes - each wrapped in one of the original talismans - inked in black and cinnabar (as historically vermilion was regarded as the colour of blood, thus the colour of life), depicting the emblems and living spirits of wild boars, snakes, and trees in the surrounding forest.
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Self Released, 2022
Flora Yin-Wong is an artist, writer and DJ who uses rudimentary field recordings, granular synthesis, and traditional instruments, underpinned by influences from club culture. Through these disparate elements, her work channels her interest in philosophical and psychological themes such as faith, obsession, and ritual. She has been commissioned by and presented live at institutions like Palais de Tokyo in Paris, MACRO Roma, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Triennale Milano, Somerset House, The V&A, ISSUE Project Room New York, Volksbuhne Berlin, ATONAL, Unsound and MUTEK Festival to clubs like Berghain, fabric and Printworks. Her music has been released on labels like Modern Love, PAN, Shelter Press, Tectonic, and Nyege Nyege etc. In early 2023 she launched a label and publishing house, Doyenne, and was commissioned by Parisian sound institute INA GRM on a soundpiece designed for their 48 channel speaker system released as a split LP. In 2026/7 she'll release her new EPs with Nick Klein on Room40 and a new moniker Lily of the Valley on YYAA.
