stress leads to unusual words often [2017]
solo performance, open duration
stress leads to unusual words often is a text work that deals with my personal history of mental health conditions and symptoms, presented in the form of a solo performance and an ongoing series of scripts.
The performance encompasses a lecture delivered at a podium, while a speech-to-text app live types on a projected screen behind me. Computer generated discrepencies, often bordering on the poetic, emerge in the space between what is said and what is received. The performance acts as an ironic non-confession, an obfuscation capturing something of the frought negotiation between feelings and words, as well as an increasing reliance upon robot doctors and internet based self diagnosis.
I am developing a book which will bring together every version of the text that has been produced by the dictation app. It will be presented with a thumb index and a series of custom made emoticons, inspired by Russian poet El Lissitzky’s 1923 book Dlia Golosa [For the Voice], a book of visual poetry intended to be read aloud.
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Performing at Flux Factory, New York City, 2017
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El Lissitzky’s 1923 book Dlia Golosa [For the Voice]
solo performance, open duration
stress leads to unusual words often is a text work that deals with my personal history of mental health conditions and symptoms, presented in the form of a solo performance and an ongoing series of scripts.
The performance encompasses a lecture delivered at a podium, while a speech-to-text app live types on a projected screen behind me. Computer generated discrepencies, often bordering on the poetic, emerge in the space between what is said and what is received. The performance acts as an ironic non-confession, an obfuscation capturing something of the frought negotiation between feelings and words, as well as an increasing reliance upon robot doctors and internet based self diagnosis.
I am developing a book which will bring together every version of the text that has been produced by the dictation app. It will be presented with a thumb index and a series of custom made emoticons, inspired by Russian poet El Lissitzky’s 1923 book Dlia Golosa [For the Voice], a book of visual poetry intended to be read aloud.
Performing at Flux Factory, New York City, 2017
El Lissitzky’s 1923 book Dlia Golosa [For the Voice]
Performances [2017]:
- Slade Interim Show, UCL, London
- Authentic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
- Progress/Regress, Crypt Gallery, London
- Flux Factory, New York City
- Slade Interim Show, UCL, London
- Authentic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
- Progress/Regress, Crypt Gallery, London
- Flux Factory, New York City