Relationships don't finish, they change
(R.d.f.t.c.)

R.d.f.t.c. is a project that developed from six songs which were initially written for two different performances: Mountains (2022) and The Frontier (2023).

The songs were inspired by conversations with untrained performers who participated in those pieces, responding to my existential questions about longing, motivation, and purpose in the post-internet, transapocalyptic grind. These conversations shared a sense that people missed interdependency, connection to the practical tasks of physical survival, and nature.

Kegler explains:

"I developed a series of choreographic videos for the songs — some with and some without music, thinking about the aesthetics of adjusting (an act of searching for comfort), cult appeal, and nostalgia as a haze-machine (that remembering the past as better interferes with making the present good); as well as Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet, and mundane aspects of the millennial experience— like dating apps.

"When I developed the six original titles — Death-bo-beath; Unsatisfied; I Got My Cult; Neon Purple Glow; Everything has already happened; Sub Song — into videos, additional material emerged, resulting in the ten accompanying shorts: What's special about you?; Beautiful New World; Species Family; No presh it's chill, bummer my bad; The Last Mating Call; Slow Love; Seaweed Dance; It's You I Like; Nolan & Zander.

"I later translated the sixteen short videos into objects and paintings, thinking about tactile childhood memories of drawing with crayon on wooden furniture, and agreeing to believe in magical suggestions like Disney, Santa and safety."