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“Hemen maiz, hiltzen naiz.”
Here I often die.
This website brings together words, images and sounds born from the experience of a patient body. It unfolds in three interrelated parts: a diary, a series of short texts and a three-act audiovisual essay.
Diary of a Patient Body begins in pain and illness. Narrated in the first person and based on real events, it develops as a poetic journey in which writing makes it possible to record what has been lived, accompany the body’s transformations and turn experience into embodied memory.
The texts gathered in Body, Listening and Finitude explore listening as an acoustic phenomenon, a form of knowledge and a practice of attention. To listen is to expose oneself to the world, to draw near to pain without reducing it to an explanation, and to attend to the fragility, difference and finitude of bodies.
Horizontal Listening, a three-act audiovisual essay, takes up these reflections and moves them towards image, sound, word and silence. Horizontal music appears as a listening to impermanence and as a way of remaining beside what changes, disappears and resonates once more.
All three parts share a single question: how can we listen to a body when it is in pain, when it changes and knows itself to be finite? Vulnerability and attention thus appear as forms of knowledge, accompaniment and relationship with the world.
“I look for my words, in silence. I look, from among all those that float around my listenings, for le bon mot. The right word, the apt one, the one that will come to seize hold and pluck out of the musical flux what I want to tell you.”