IOKOI Tales of Another Felt Sense of Self, Episode Two: Movement
For her latest multimedia project, Tales of Another Felt Sense of Self, sound artist, vocalist composer Mara Miccichè, better known as IOKOI, embarks on an expansive yet intimate investigation of the essence of being by activating our senses. To get physical through all the senses and to embrace the other is needed now more than ever, she explains. This is the feeling I wanted to translate into sound: raw, intimate, transitional, cleansing and moving. Breathing, embracing and releasing life in all of its facets imperfect, impermanent, incomplete. The result is an ambitious, multisensory triptych that spirals outwards from five experimental compositions to include a publication, a room scent and a series of three films, each centring on different aspect of being. Working closely with graphic designer Sarah Parsons, olfactory artist Klara Ravat and filmmaker Michele Foti, IOKOI layers new sites of reflection onto the work, extending the project beyond the normal confines of a digital an
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