Language Pit, 2016/2021
Mixed media
Two 10-inch speakers/amplification for playback, projectors, or displays (space dependent), Two micro-video cameras, media player, and assorted cabling.
Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Language Pit is driven by short phrases derived from the general drift of political sound bites as well as gender politics and the complexities thereof. Forms of Identity and language structures give way to wordplay, scrambled pronouns, and idiomatic expression.
The spoken exchange, riddled with percussive phonetics, “plays” large visible speaker cones that are mounted facing up--one voice per speaker. Wired through the skin of the speakers are fingertip size circuit boards complete with video cameras and integral microphones. They’ve been given a short leash on which to run amok in their own private sphere of sound; speech provides a dynamically oscillating and challenging surface. The cameras’ speech-driven movement is seen projected or on mounted displays.
Exhibited as a work-in-process, a first iteration with a slightly different text.
"Unspoken Dialogues," Millennium Gallery, Lisbon, November 12, 2016 - March 11, 2017
Language Pit, 2016 - 2021
Hmmm
Hmmm
Come on
You come on
Are you coming on?
What you see is what you get
What you get has already been taken
You’re breaking up
Someone's poking around
Fishing for compromises
The possibilities
The buck stops here
Let's get started
After you
I have my walking papers
Talking points please
Talking pictures
A dime a dozen
no more distractions
Get to the point
Wash, rinse, repeat
Wash, rinse, repeat
Do I hear an echo?
After me
What just happened?
Causality
Without probable cause
It's come and gone
This time
Not possible
Not possible
Check the body cam
Body cams galore
Unthinkable possibilities
Unthinkable possibilities
Redact that
Think positive
With a negative charge
What a crock
Come on
Come on
Come on
Only the facts please
In point of fact
Can you point it out?
Improbable but not impossible
It can’t happen
its prerecorded
So, what
forget particulars
The devil's details
Its happening at the border
who's the recorder
Is someone taping this
I've got this
I'm speaking
and have spoken
Just above the dotted line
Cut here
Is there a problem?
The impossible is not always possible.
What you see is what you get is impossible
The possibility of the impossible
Fact check
fuck that
Raze the walls
Raze the white flag
Raise or Raze
Same difference
Wash, rinse repeat
What's it going to be
What's it going to be
The impossible happens
The impossible has happened
It's the possible we have problems with
Algorithms predict outcomes
How come?
Algorithms find you out
How far out?
Impossibilities are suspect
Pronouns are suspects
Got your PGP straight?
Come on
Come on
Stop the double talk
Double or nothing
Up the ante
I'm out
Move the Goal posts
The probabilities of uncertainties
What's your cost analysis?
Has this ever happened before?
Time to go downtown
Before we bubble
a compromised quagmire
Pockets of resistance
Drain the swamps
Lance the boils
inoculate anything that moves
What difference does it make?
Ze can come
Ve can come
You can come
They can come
Heir can come
Come one, come some, come all
Welcome
What’s it going to be?
Heroes or zeros
Nuns or ones
All is well that ends well
Who gets the kick?
Who gets the kick?
Who gets the kick and who jumps ship?
Pull the rug, pull the plug