Alice Kemp is a British artist working across noise, performance, fetish objects and installation, using fractured dream logic to expose the subconscious through trance, disturbance and ritual. Her practice has included performances alongside members of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe, and that lineage of extremity is sharply felt here.
9 Dreams In Erotic Mourning is a deliberately confrontational work: violent, intimate and unresolved. Kemp moves between broken piano figures, psychoacoustic noise, sudden voids of silence and grotesque vocalisations, building pressure through moments of fear, grief and psychic rupture. Acts of physical aggression sit uncomfortably beside fragile melody, creating a sense of private ritual forced into public space.
By design, meaning remains elusive. The record behaves like a séance gone wrong — oblique, unsettling, and charged with body-horror intensity — aligning Kemp’s approach with artists such as Rudolf Eb.Er, Puce Mary, Sewer Election and Luc Ferrari.
Originally appearing as part of the On Corrosion anthology, the work also marked a milestone release for The Helen Scarsdale Agency, standing as one of the most uncompromising statements in Kemp’s catalogue.
