Seen. Unsaid

Live performance with sound and video projection.

The auditorium is dark – absolute black. A loud sound and then the film flickers up to reveal a lone woman in the light. She is standing stock still, aggressively, clenching her fists. The soundtrack begins. It consists of samples of dialogue, cut from various movies. The performer lip-syncs to the stream of voices, some male, some female, mostly disagreeing with each other. It is as if she cannot help herself – she opens her mouth and the words of others pour out. Trapped by the light, caught up in the voices, she has become a conduit for dismembered and disconnected speech. This is a dark performance, verging on hysterical, in which she plays out her internal melodrama publicly.

Duration 9.5 minutes