Ask The Dust VII: Songs of (Sometimes Negative) Beauty

Is the cup half empty or half full? How to decide what constitutes beauty? In this Episode we will try (TRY!) to focus on some more “song” based practices, but also have a bunch of other nuts in the mix. The song as a format, for me, is often one that works with some set rules or an aesthetic frame that most people have experienced and therefore have a more close relationship to. "Everybody" likes that the chorus is something they can sing along to. That relationship also makes it a great platform for widening the ears of people and as a discursive tool. This way of looking at something ( in this case “the song”) can also be used for Dust. Ultimately, the discussion of aesthetics somehow still has relevance to how we relate other things, songs, feelings etc to ourselves and the world we live in. Yeah - big words from whatever we didn’t get to sweep up from under the couch the last couple of weeks! ––– Ask The Dust is a Series that in different ways approaches themes like nostalgia, artistic intensions, nature, politics, domestic and spiritual matters mostly in form of music and other recorded material. Ask the Dust presents a platform of contemplation and reflection, that is open-ended and yet steadily focused on the Abject as a main point of departure. The series is initiated and produced by Claus Haxholm.