Jesse Farber

@jesse.farber

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Today I’m honoring the mysteries.🫀☠️ #inthestudio #yahrzeit
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1 month ago
Doing this again after a long long time. When I was 14 I read the words “tape loop” and just got out some scotch tape and gave it a try—and right off the bat, it made magic. Things aren’t supposed to just work like that, but audiotape is special that way, dumb and miraculous at the same time. A few days ago I found about a meter of disembodied mangled audiotape on the ground—no cassette shell anywhere in sight—and the old instinct kicked in. I wanted to see what would come out of it. I figured it would be some horrible schlager. Last night I made the first loop, then had to open it up and tighten it a bit—I’d forgotten about that part. There was a snippet of eerie dialogue between a man and a child. The last slide here shows the transcription and translation. #tapeloops #cassetteculture #foundobjects
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1 month ago
Identity + politics are some of today’s loudest signifiers. As the “big Other” fades and we live in smaller bubbles, we don’t get more democracy so much as what Lacan called je-cratie: the reign of the “I,” the ego’s pursuit of happiness. Freud didn’t speak of identity—he spoke of identification: messy, contingent knots to images, names, demands. In this issue of pas tout: psychoanalyst René Rasmussen on why identity and enjoyment don’t necessarily coincide (and a sharp critique of Butler); artist Patricia Detmering replies with sketches as singular traces, not repeatable “identities;” and Jesse Farber explores a serial uncanny today—when “repression” seems lifted, yet speaking becomes harder. Our contributors prove it still can be done. #jessefarber #identity #identification #judithbutler #renerasmussen #patriciadetmering
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2 months ago
🎂HBD to me! Thanks for sharing another year together. We’re going to create many wonderful things in this new one! 🙂‍↔️☁️☁️☁️
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4 months ago
Fantastic time at the @fundacao_serralves during a quick stop in Porto. The Cinthia Marcelle installation took the prize for me—I just loved this piece and how it revealed itself. Looking forward to discovering more of her work. Sadly, I had just missed the @endlesswebsite installation, so I decided to spend the return trip across town listening to him. #cinthiamarcelle #jorgejacome #airesmateus #anneimhof #mauriziocattelan #florisvanhoof #aalto #foundclothing
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4 months ago
**>, 2025, 18 x 24 in. A new print work of mine, plus two random slices of #microphotography from a great book by #carlstrüwe. #collage #collageprint
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5 months ago
🌞🪺Release day! Nested is now available at Bandcamp for streaming and download, or as a limited edition cassette! Swipe right to meet the artists! ➡️ Link in bio for the music, or visit: /album/nested. #tapes #experimental #electronic #electroacoustic #shoegaze #bandcamp #releaseday #vonconflon #artists
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7 months ago
🐁 “They are the insects and mice who have burrowed inside an ancient TV cabinet, tasting its circuits and wires.“ 𝑵𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 comes out this Friday, September 26th! The Vonconflon Bandcamp page is up now for digital and cassette pre-orders. New, unreleased tracks from (in order of appearance) Tomutonttu, Alexander Ross, Manoir Molle, Ksenija Sundejeva, Rimarimba, Kevin Micka & Noell Dorsey, Günter Schlienz, and RNL. Link in bio to hear the preview track and pre-order. Follow Vonconflon on Bandcamp for updates! /album/nested #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #tapes #soundart #riso #cassettes #vonconflon #newrelease
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7 months ago
🌝 Super excited about this new release out next week on my label, Vonconflon! Available digitally or in a limited edition of 200 cassettes. Huge thanks to all the artists involved. Thanks also to @rtm_tape for the delicious tapes and @coloramaprint for the gorgeous risograph covers. Awesome artwork courtesy of @jas_mine_just_ice 🐉🐍 Full info, track listing, and pre-order at /album/nested (link also in my bio) Vonconflon invites you into the world of Nested, an international compilation of new works by artists exploring traces of the natural, the human, and the handmade within the synthetic. They are the insects and mice who have burrowed inside an ancient TV cabinet, tasting its circuits and wires. Within, they discover a life-sustaining warmth, as well as joy, loneliness, fear, determination, and tranquility. Nested leads us through kaleidoscopic snowfall, down a countryside trail, and into misty sea-marshes. It guides us through caves and empty rooms, and into a dog’s summer dream. We wander in circles, plunge beneath a sloshing current, and find ourselves dissolving entirely. It’s no surprise that many of the musicians here are also accomplished visual artists. Each contributor pursues their work with a distinct experimental sensitivity, finding sounds, structures, and processes through idiosyncratic methods of their own invention. Vonconflon’s first compilation release grew out of our deep regard for each artist’s work. This is a gathering shaped both by admiration and the recognition of a subtle, shared sensibility worth examining. With this in mind, we have brought together influential visionaries and contemporary dreamers, some of whom step outside of better-known identities for the occasion. All eleven tracks are recent and previously unreleased. #tomutonttu #manoirmolle #rimarimba #ksenijasundejeva #guenterschlienz #alexanderross #kevinmicka @ndorser #RNL #vonconflon #experimental #electronic #shoegaze #dreampop #musiqueconcrete #cassette #tapes #cassetteculture #soundcollage #newrelease #bandcamp
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7 months ago
💣SHATTER TRAP opens tomorrow! 7-10pm at @anagramspace , Erlanger Str. 8 in Neukölln, Berlin Here’s one of the brand new collages in the show, also featured in the next propaganda zine. Plenty more collages and zines to see at the show. See you there! #collage #analog #DIY #exhibition #berlinart
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8 months ago
💣Berlin, come check out SHATTER TRAP at @anagramspace ! Opening Friday August 29th, 7-10pm. Collages in b&w and color, zines, tapes, people, lights, sounds, movements, perceptions, realities. All will be ours to share. See you in Neukölln! #berlinart #exhibition #collage #anagramspace #neukoelln
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8 months ago
Next week! Collage show at @anagramspace with handmade collages and zines. Come hang out and check out my xacto skillzz in color and b&w! #collage #zine #propaganda #exhibition Shatter Trap is an exhibition of recent handmade collages by visual and audio artist Jesse Farber. At its center is a selection of stark images that recall Farber’s long-running project, RNL. In a favorite early action, RNL created xeroxed propaganda-like flyers with perplexing texts, which they distributed to confused passersby from busy street corners. Participants would compare stories afterward about the responses. Some people seemed irritated, while others were curious. Was this art? RNL would not offer to explain. Shatter Trap returns to this propaganda mode, combining evocative yet cryptic slogans and images, designed for black and white reproduction. Some of these works are included in the recent zine First Act / First Fact from Vonconflon, available from Anagram Space. The exhibition includes a small additional selection from the series Demon Box Color Core, which will be featured in the next collage zine from Vonconflon. These small mysteries sit at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, silently radiating toxic colors. Jesse Farber builds vivid spaces through visual and audio montage. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with residencies at Jeckels Gl. Skagen (Denmark), the Islip Museum of Art (New York), Yaddo (New York), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). His projects have been featured in WYRD, Aerogramme Center’s Mobile Library, Bait/Switch, Brut, and the White Columns Curated Registry. Through his imprint, Vonconflon, he publishes an ongoing library of zines and cassettes. His sound works have appeared in films, broadcasts, and live events. Jesse lives and works in Berlin. /jesse.farber rnl-tapes.com
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8 months ago