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Pris Roos

1:1:Infinity, Issue 2

World As Lover World As Self, Chapter 1: City Pollen by Magali Reus
Audiodescribed at Shimmer, Rotterdam, Nov 2020
Issue 3 audio track 1:1:Infinity serial playlist
Published by 3-ply and Liquid Architecture, 2020

A co-publishing initiative of 3-ply and Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal, 1:1:Infinity is a serial audio publication, conceived as an episodic column that offers a radical expansion in ratios of access. Voiced descriptions of artworks, performances, and situations, commissioned from our friends and associates, pivot on the Describer as embodied proxy and subjective guide. Turning from objective tropes, we invite conversational, improvised description, as if speaking to an intimate other. Each description is recorded in place, as the narrator navigates spontaneous perceptions, personal reactions, and critical relations to works, structures, and happenings we cannot see.

Recorded 19 November 2020, between 3pm and 4pm, at Shimmer gallery, Rotterdam, Pris Roos describes Chapter 1: City Pollen by Magali Reus of World as Lover, World as Self, an exhibition composed of a sequence of chapters that crossfade. Inspired by environmental activist and Buddhist philosopher Joanna Macy, World As Lover World As Self draws on defamiliarisation as a strategy to relinquish separateness, to take account of the residue of the world, ushering in a process of transformation through language to change perception.
(Exhibition description has been adapted from Shimmer gallery website, more details here.)

About the Describer: Pris Roos grew up in Rhenen, the Netherlands. Her family migrated from Bogor, Indonesia, to start their own toko in the Netherlands. Toko is the Indonesian word for shop, and they sell non-Western food(products). Roos grew up in the toko, a space of being together, and full of colours, smells, food, stories and images of immigrants. The toko is a source of inspiration for her artistic practices. Stories that are normally not heard find their way in her works. Roos makes portraits of immigrants that she meets in the toko, on the streets or in her surroundings of the South of Rotterdam. She visits them at home or invites them to her atelier. The stories are translated into painted portraits, videos, installations and spoken word performances. 

 
 

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS
Phone snapshots by Pris Roos taken 19 November 2020 in Shimmer gallery, Rotterdam, displayed as a looping slideshow gallery.
Snapshot 1: I see a green crane in the distance. Three even, no wait four green cranes.
Snapshot 2: The space is empty, can you hear my echo?
Snapshot 3: One third is white, two third is truck.