Matthew Lenkiewicz and Pauline Payen, “Can-You-Hear-Me? 2021.

Soundscapes as part of Y O U N G F O S S I L LIVE at IMMA, 1 October 2021 . Matthew Lenkiewicz and Pauline Payen’s series of sound compositions have been created from layered Internet field-recordings, vocal synthesis and semi-musical arrangements. Using both the artists’ connections and means of connection to each other, to Y O U N G F O S S I L and to its Dublin home as raw material, the works attempt to react to a growing codification of intimacy, bureaucracy, life, work and nature into a shared, increasingly complex but familiar, technological (flat)space.

Working at a distance with awkward, alien fragments, found, synthesised and recorded across video calls, internet archives and other non-places, the artists reflect on contemporary day-to-day artificiality in nature, emotional landscapes, intimacy, relationships with work, friendships and humour. Distributed across the site and integrated into the platforms, the visitors are invited to lay down on the wood and listen in to an endlessly looping, long-distance call with reality.