6 channel audio (audio downwards through the speakers)
22m06s
2023
In Between Lines (The Language of The Body) is a spatialized audio installation installed in the monumental staircase of a former tobacco factory (St-Michel) in Molenbeek (Brussels). The audio moved downwards through the six speakers.
The work started from Kathy Acker’s essay ‘Beyond Ordinary Language: The Language of The Body’ in which she describes the loss of ordinary language through the activity of building ones body. She addresses breathing and counting as the only remnants of ordinary language.
I used this statement as a method for the work. I recorded myself reading the text, while working out. Afterwards I silenced all the words, so that the only physical remainder of the text becomes the breathing; a language of the body.
‘A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards’, Gosset site (HISK), Brussels (BE)
Picture by Lola Pertsowsky
Picture by Lola Pertsowsky
AGAINST ORDINARY LANGUAGE: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY - Kathy Acker (PDF)