The 8th Letter

Performance in development

Based on the research for Places of Articulation, The 8th Letter is an extended lecture performance, weaving video capsules, short animations and two performers whose lips are being tracked as they speak. It traces a trajectory of disappearance of the individual and of meaning, when language is broken down to sounds, becoming data in the service of the never-ending  project of identification and control. 

Based on the research for Places of Articulation, The 8th Letter is an extended lecture performance, weaving video capsules, short animations and two performers whose lips are being tracked as they speak. It traces a trajectory of disappearance of the individual and of meaning, when language is broken down to sounds, becoming data in the service of the never-ending  project of identification and control. 

 "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand."

 "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand."