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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