A play and a mistake stages a scene to cause another.
The scene is this: an encore of misrecognitions
The scene is this: lilies shaved down to the bone.
The scene is this: persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward*
Evolving from a preoccupation with images that stick, and words that won’t, A play and a mistake, contemplates how libidinal investments shape the contours of desire, memory, and meaning.
Ruminations upon a photograph that can’t bear to be looked at, and a prefix that hesitates to be spoken, sees imagery and sound undergo a reduction operation*, towards some kind of remainder.
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*Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H., 1964, P186
*See, Jacques-Alain Miller, Analysis Laid Bare, 2019
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Claudia, for lending their voice and energy to this project, and to Liquid Architecture, for their in-kind support.