Isaac Orson Phillips

Isaac Orson Phillips

My work spans across music, sound, and visual art, guided by an aesthetic philosophy I refer to as post-cringe. For me, this means challenging existing conventions by embracing the divergent, the weird, and the absurd to create work that is both sincere and politically radical.

My process begins by seeking to 'musicify' the mundane, uncovering the beauty in the everyday by applying novel sonic and visual filters to ordinary things. My approach is steeped in a hauntological analysis, appropriating signs and symbols to explore the ghosts of our collective memories. By re-contextualizing the sounds and images of past utopias, my work engages with a form of nostalgia - not as comfort - but as a critical tool to understand our present.

Technology is central to this exploration, serving both as a creative asset and as a subject of artistic inquiry itself as I navigate digital spaces with an anthropological lens.

This work often takes the form of a dialectic. By contrasting diverse concepts, themes, and materials, I aim to create a 'third space' where new meanings can form. It is this uncanny space created in those latent spaces that most interests me as an artist.