Sophia Archontis

Sophia Archontis is a multimedia artist originally from Cyprus, now based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work spans poetry, noise/sound art, photography, and music, and she has been featured in publications Tangerine Dream, From Glasgow to Saturn, as well as exhibitions Urban Coincidence and off-page. She is also a resident on stations Sunny G Radio and Radio Buena Vida, and is the host of the monthly night Electronic Experimentations at the Flying Duck.

This collection was borne out of a desire to explore the manifestos of electronic music, and how that might relate to poetry and performance. Throughout the course of my artistic practice I have been interested in the word, the utterance, and how to visually represent text in different experimental formats. I wondered: what happens to meaning when we remove the context of words and phrases, and examine the text as a concrete, self-sustaining object? I explored electronic music, borrowing the techniques of audio layering, note addition, rhythm, tempo, distortion. As a result, I turned to sound, in an attempt to represent poetry in what I believe to be its most authentic form: noise. I extended this type of experimentation to the final installation, representing photographs I've taken with handwritten poems wheatpasted onto the brick wall of the tank room. In this way, I wanted to play with vulnerability and intimacy.