Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine was made for the promotion of a pop-up meme magick lodge and performance by me at MAMA, Rotterdam. A section of this mix, alongside a scripted dialogue between me and fellow artist Willem de Haan, was aired by Operator Radio on the 4th of October, 2019. The mix, now available in uncut form, was a first attempt at making an audio essay, comparable to the visual/pictorial essays of Aby Warburg and John Berger. However, Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine is not structured as a argumentative, linear essay, and is more akin to a knotting of contemporary and popular discourses surrounding reality, make-believe, magic, and pretend, to invoke questions regarding ontology, epistemology, change, difference, and performativity.

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