{"id":27327,"date":"2019-03-05T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=27327"},"modified":"2019-03-06T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T05:11:15","slug":"interview-ziemba-veritas-in-terra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/interview-ziemba-veritas-in-terra\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Ziemba Extends an Invite to Parallel World of Ardis with “Veritas in Terra”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ren\u00e9 Kladzyk has made it her artistic purpose to merge various media since the very beginning of her musical project Ziemba<\/a>; her debut LP<\/a> came with an incense made from flowers in and around her childhood home, and her live shows frequently feature the diffusion of scents she’s created to go along with the specific experience. Now, inspired by singing collectively with Colin Self’s XHOIR<\/a>, feminist science fiction, Nabokov’s treatise on time<\/a>, and the neofuturistic architecture of John Portman<\/a>, Kladzyk has launched the first phase of Ardis<\/em>, a high-concept three-part album that explores utopia from a human perspective.<\/p>\n

Essentially, Ardis<\/em> is a parallel version of Earth, with “necessary changes” having been made. Its creation was a direct response to Trump’s election, Kladzyk explains. “I felt really devastated by a lot of what I was seeing in America and I wanted to talk about it but in a way that didn\u2019t just perpetuate me feeling devastated by it,” she says. “How can I talk about this in a way that\u2019s not just dwelling on how upsetting it is, but instead thinking about possible alternatives and mobilizing in a way that\u2019s fantastical and fun and uplifting? If you believe that cultural change is fueled by art and creative work, which I do, then people who are making work that envisions possible alternative futures can have a real material impact on the world we live in here.”<\/p>\n

The first five songs from the LP<\/a>, which comprise Part One, were released in February, along with a video for “Veritas in Terra” that brings Kladzyk’s concepts into the real world via John Portman’s architecture. His buildings have served as the inspiration for Delta City in Robocop<\/em>, and appeared in sci-fi classics and recent blockbusters alike, from John Carpenter’s Escape From LA<\/em> to the Divergent<\/em> series. Kladzyk first encountered his work on a trip to New York City (which she now calls home) during her teens, when she ventured into the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. “Veritas in Terra” was shot in three Atlanta hotels; Portman’s architectural thumbprint is everywhere in his home city, characterized by the multi-storied arrangement of floors overlooking a towering atrium, often with a glass elevator that traverses it like a an electrical impulse running up a human spine. Indeed, this is the intended visual allusion, one which Kladzyk mirrors in relating humanity to the sprawling scale of a futuristic cityscape. “It\u2019s an inter-scalar thing – it\u2019s like, if you look at a building like a body, and a body like a song, you find the commonalities in the way we structure ideas to the way we structure our world on the macro level,” she explains.<\/p>\n