Altitude Above Hygiene

Altitude Above Hygiene is a digital tract surfacing nightlife pasts from waste and architectural incontinence. Through speculating transmissions with nonhuman/inorganic matter, the tract seeks to attune to the slippery grammar of effluence, remembering with and from the imagined (and residual) waste of ecstatic encounters. Abstracted field recordings of architectural spillage, gathered from sites that held Black queer nightlife in London, are linked by digestive pipage co-visioned and shaped by multidisciplinary new:media artist GWENBA, to mock up a system of ingestion, expulsion and collaboration. Altitude Above Hygiene is a testing ground that seeks to ask what waste remembers? What (muffled) positions can detritus and spectral interference offer up to unfix the formalities of preservation? How can thinking through waste honour the unsanitary nature of erotic expression?