Jules Reidy
12.9 – 11.10 2025
Mint, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Installation and live performance by Jules Reidy
Alongside work by Libuše Jarcovjáková
Curated by anorak as part of September Sessions 2025
Opening Friday, 12 September, 7–10pm
Live performance 8pm
Jules Reidy makes song cycles which abstractly deal with devotional love, transcendence and death of the self. Known for their rich, immersive sonic world-building and magnetic performances—using spatialised guitar, electronic processing, and non-traditional tuning systems—Reidy turns to installation for the first time with Inside, Crystals and Circuitry, loosening the narrative impulse of song.
The title takes inspiration from Peter Wollen’s speculative science-fiction film Friendship’s Death (1987), in which the android Friendship poetically describes themself as being “inside, crystals and circuitry,” despite their outwardly human appearance, voice, and gesture. Set in a hotel room in Amman during the ‘Black September’ in 1970—the Jordanian offensive against Palestinians—the film is a meditation on humanity’s tendencies towards violence and destruction, in which the figure of the android turns the tension between form and essence into an ethical argument.
Here, sonic fragments are refracted through a field of glass and reflection, echoing that ambiguity. Inside, Crystals and Circuitry refuses narrative closure; it stages dissonant encounters—a collision of worlds carried by microtonal friction rather than by contrasting intact sonic holding patterns—and thereby replaces the demand to decode with a demand for attention.
The multi-channel installation unfolds across the foyer and adjacent exhibition spaces of Mint alongside work by photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková. Jules Reidy will activate the installation with a live performance on the opening of the exhibition. Followed by an after-party at Cues.
Jules Reidy recently released music on Thrill Jockey, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, and performed in live contexts such as CTM Festival, Big Ears, and ReWire. Their current collaborations include projects with Judith Hamann, Ivan Cheng, and Andrea Belfi.