Norbergfestival took place in Norberg, Sweden on July 7 to 9, with a speculative written response from oxi pëng, designed by Marijn Degenaar, published on AQNB today. Featuring the likes of Himera, Aïsha Devi, Asian Dope Boys, Loraine James, ANIMA and more, the festival was held soon after summer solstice in the abandoned mine site of Mimerlaven.
In a creative response to the event’s three days, oxi pëng (aka yiou penelope peng) evokes magic and memory, playing with the reflective and personal nature of a festival review. The artist, who describes herself as a “symbiotic being” working across sci-fi academic papers and psychedelic poetries, also penned the prelude for Asian Dope Boys’ presentation of PHYSIS at Norbergfestival. pëng’s poem is hosted in a PDF designed by Degenaar, who performs under the alias Circular Ruins, while experimenting across form, type and colour to divine the festival’s array of performances as if “collected from a crystal of memory of twilight beings.” Read a short preview below and see this link to download the piece in full.**
after many moons when trying to recall
what exactly happened during those three delicate days of july,
they discovered that their memories became crystals.
how to describe these crystals?
juicy beats coiled with passed-on, re-invented melodies,
modulated in liquid transparency
— they drop onto the ground with clouds,
the kind of clouds that are specifically born from the green mountain highlands
among trolls and gnomes;
the kind of clouds that are floating near,
softly holding your vulnerability and imagination
then dispersing themselves into these crystals.
Norbergfestival took place in Norberg, Sweden on July 7 to 9, 2022, with a speculative written response from oxi pëng, designed by Marijn Degenaar, published on AQNB today. Click here to download.
