PROCESS OF ELIMINATION by EL HARDWICK
| SKU | 134947 |
| Artist | EL HARDWICK |
| Title | PROCESS OF ELIMINATION |
| Label | AD 93 |
| Catalog # | WHYT075 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 49 - 2024 |
| Format | Vinyl - UKLP |
| EAN Barcode | 4062548097191 |
| Exclusive | |
| € 24,99 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- the queer art of slowness
- dual
- quantology
- how do i know what i want when everybody is telling me i should want what i dont have
- laying on the floor staring up at dust in the air
- breathing room
- language couldnt say
- pataphysical
- wildest imagination
Description
Process of Elimination explores sickness as a teacher for anti-capitalist modes of being; a rewilding of the self. The product of an attempt to be indestructible, this sickness has an unknown diagnosis. The only route to determine the indeterminable is via a process of elimination. Eliminate the noise so it may quieten and make space for listening to what whispers underneath, allowing a return to the present moment. Slowness and queerness as technologies, questions as answers and mysticism as a path to healing when science alone does not suffice.
London-based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick’s sophomore album follows their experience of becoming chronically ill after years of treating their body like a machine. El explains: “After failing to receive a diagnosis, which is only given via a lengthy process of elimination, I instead turned to autonomous modes of healing rooted in mysticism and herbalism; putting aside the need to be defined. My journey towards accepting my disability is told in parallel to my coming-out as trans. I also see my non-binary identity as a process of elimination: I am neither gender, both, in-between. It is through rewilding myself from capitalism and gender normativity that I learn how to connect to my body and the earth; no longer allowing either’s energy to be extracted from. The less I sought answers, language, metrics and analysis, the more peace I found.”
