Untitled

2022
speaker playing percussion instrument (skin). 10m
part of Songs (Book 1)

A reading or intonation to self; the instrument as an extension of the body; a slight trembling: listening to oneself listening to oneself, tracing oneself trace oneself.

[…] by shutting himself up alone with his disease, fastened to it, coiled up in its fascination and pain, its emptiness and voluptuousness, the colonized produces social death as the symptom of an overwhelmed body, in whose dispossessed life and incomplete death the rottenness of western pathology is revealed as a discourse of cure without ultimate justification or legitimation, a cure within which the rule of law and propriety is sustained by force and violence. There is then something rotten in this encounter between medical efficacy and the racialized body that infuses the cure with an element of violence and compulsion.
— David Marriott, “Judging Fanon,” 2016