Viral Content is formed of a series of stories that relate incidences of eerie charge between human/natural forms and elemental/mineral forces. The lambent whisper of the narrative voice highlights the salacious, sensational force of each tale - suspending them in limbo between fiction and fact. This sensation(alism) renders each subject extra-corporeal - both more than and apart from their root origin. A viral pull that takes hold of subject and listener alike. [Text by Amy Pettifer]

Viral Content was created on invitation for a listening event on ‘the eerie’ at Goldsmiths College, London organised by Mark Fisher in December 2013.

Viral Content

guard the delight offers a landscape made from byproducts, offcuts and bastardizations, littered with lyrics and scattered prophecies. It is the lucky rabbit’s foot you place in your pocket when chaos arrives. A lucky eel’s tail is more like it, hangin’ on a keychain—but it’s a slippery little fucker that luck, and you need to get a grip on it.

It mixes together a mush – of teen memories from the north east of england, working in a café to get enough coin to flow down K-holes & quake to new monkey every sunday night – plus an epipen of hi-drama from the birthsite of these tunes (new monkey or makina, being a type of spanish techno that’ll break yer neck) brought thru municipal fiestas mainlined from barcelona – & on top of that comes gaelic euphorias, chewing gum techno, prophets smoking in cafés in a language you don’t yet understand – all this amounting to the signal breakin’ up as you cruise the country roads in some lad’s car stunning for roadkill, hyping for sacrilege, the breaks in the beat meaning you look to make your own way in.

With firework and lighter held in a pair of sky-high hands it commands you: GUARD THE DELIGHT

Part of 'chaos rehearsals' with Madeleine Stack at SLUG, Leipzig, [19 August - 10 September 2022]. 'guard the delight' and the majority of the lyrics are taken from Stack's poetry collection of the same name.

guard the delight

Exhibited at MACBA, Barcelona, as part of Lydia Ourahmane's '108 Days' (26 February 2024)

Blurb & installation images: https://ferboyd.hotglue.me/letsgetmortal

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Letter Part A and B were made by Ruta Dumciute and Fer Boyd as part of ULTIMATE FANTASIES at Guest Projects, London in June 2018. Love Letter Part B is a love letter in sound, in which two voices bombinate to a transformative climax. Love Letter Part A was an active sculpture made from ingredients including latex, MSG and flavoured energy gels, which was sent from London to Sweden, to be danced with as part of a special edition of P0$$€ dance and reading.

Love Letter Part B, 2018

In DETOUCH, vocal material becomes the permanently rolling surface of a tank of industrial grade PVC. The narrative of a text - written by Boyd to creatively document the production process of the sculpture Mechanoreceptor, Icicles [red, red] [triple spring, triple strip] by Channer - is formed into a single, breathless moment. Two racing, machinic voices digitally fray and stretch, their subjectivities curdled, never pausing for the pleasure of anticipation or to re-consider pain. The materiality of the red, liquid plastic (which coats the 210 s t r e t c h e d and jigged aluminium fingers that comprise the sculpture) becomes a portal that can be pushed and dipped into - suggestive of a new, super-unreal life incubated in synthetic plasma. The fraying digits and opiate voices speed headily through complexities of authorship, worldly creation, the history of fingers and tangibility, and the idea of losing touch - of losing your grip. [Text by SHELL LIKE]

DETOUCH [2018], Fer Boyd and Alice Channer, 9 minutes 13 seconds [excerpt 3 minutes 26 seconds]. Voiced by Fer Boyd and Alice Channer, produced by Fer Boyd

Detouch

DETOUCH [excerpt]

A durationally recorded, sonic edition of a memoriam-in-progress which handles teen haunts and psychedelia of non-accidental near-death, banging on the door of night-grief and the window of Etel Adnan, before climbing onto a fresh gurney, its arms full of the freaky babies of Dalia Matulaitė, to the soft-boiled hell of Tittivilus, the patron demon of scribes and cause of all textual and sextual error, this fact letting our speaker off the meathook of truth.

Tittivilus gathers anecdotes like flies as they exit mouths with their long, languid, lengua. BEWARE: like God, Tittivilus is the seer of your beliefs, your propaganda, and your errors, in your most casual of climates. 

Aired on Montez Press Radio as part of an event by SALT magazine at Cell Project Space, London, in August 2019. 'Hellbox' was published in 2019 by C_anal magazine.

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