calling my name

2023, lecture performance: Jam Man Loop Station, Roland VT-4 Voice Transformer, Brookstone Noise Sound Mixer, microphone, laptop, speakers, Power Point Presentation, approx. 30 minutes

Link to the documentation: https://vimeo.com/960380828

calling my name begins with Goethe's soul moving cyclically like water and ends somewhere in the body, which is 50 to 65 percent water, which arrived on asteroids, which precedes life, which lives both inside and outside us. Masaru Emoto's crystal photographs appear. Water that holds memory, reads words, forms crystals in response to human intention. The performance
loops this theory until it breaks open. Hans Christian Andersen's little mermaid trades her voice for legs and resurfaces in Drake's single "calling my name", the mythological and the erotic pooling in the same register. A litany of deities from Mazu to Yemayá to Poseidon accumulates through the voice transformer, discovering that blood is water too. Spanish evolves into English into German into other. The words fall, rain, cry, evolve. Languages layer until the sentences stop completing themselves. Sound spreads out. It dissolves. Grammar becomes rhythm. Rhythm becomes water. Everything is water.

The performance produced the artist book (das) Wasser in mir and opened the research that became Water Women. Part notebook, part archive, part poetry, it holds the performance, the sources, the lyrics, everything water set in motion.

Exhibition views: Ich möchte eine Meerjungfrau sein sowie auf S. 87, 2023, Schweizer5, Frankfurt am Main (GER)
Photos: Tomás Maglione