Kruno Jošt

“Perma-encyclical-video-letter is a media performance by Krune Jošt, recorded during the summer of 2022 in C4CS. This performance is intended for a wider audience as an encyclical, a term derived from the Greek *enkýklios*, (“to go in a circle,” “circular”) i.e., a document on important matters of faith and/or morals that the Pope sends as a circular letter addressed to bishops but also to all believers in the Catholic Church.

This is a Perma-encyclica, and it speaks about culture – cultivation, upbringing, and education, which naturally come with it. To nurture, encourage, or support, to nourish, is the general premise. Whether it concerns land or plants, art, communication, sound, life…

The Indo-European root of cultivation is “kwel,” which is the same for “cult,” “cycle,” “chakra,” etc. The wheel from Old English “hwēola,” “hweogola,” wheel from Germanic “hwewlaza,” circle: cyclo, cycloid, cyclone, cyclosis; bicycle, encyclical, epicycle from Greek *kuklós*, circle, wheel.”

16 Channel Fertilizer (2.0) was exhibited at Silba Art Environment festival happening during July and August 2017 at small island Silba, set just off the coast of Croatia’s town of Zadar. 16CSF is upgrade on 1.0 of the same multichannel sound installation presented earlier this year in Berlin. This time set up is at Silba’s open space gallery among sculptural work of Marija Ujević Galetović. Each channel is playing one of the researched sounds or musical scores that is said to help particular aspects or plants with its vibration. Exhibition is thus not set for humans, but for plant world.

Installation consists of small wooden resonant boxes that have transportable battery and solar panel connected to them that are powering recycled mobile phones used as sound players. each sound box was set up near its plant, growing there because it was planted or self-grown. They stay in contrast to sculptural work by their number and position, not intending to be there for human visitors, but placed around and for the plants.