PARRHESIA: We exercise the force of language even as we seek to counter its force.
COMPUTER: Vowel sound is distorted. Lower body of tongue.
PARRHESIA: We exercise the force of language even as we seek to counter its force.
COMPUTER: Pace of breath is not recognized. Slow your inhalation.
PARRHESIA: We exercise the force of language even as we seek to counter its force.
COMPUTER: Make space for pause.
PARRHESIA: We exercise the force of language even as we seek to counter its force.”
COMPUTER: Pitch pattern inoperable. Increase larynx modulation.
NARRATOR: The future’s past has caught up with itself. In the Citadel residents are equipped with special auditory mechanisms for acute hearing. Communication has been stripped down to its most basic level; the voice and its aural residuals. Here, voice recognition technology controls the flow of social exchange. The interlocutors of the Citadel control the social order as well as the very limited resources of life. The voice is the key to pass. The Interlocutors guard vocal codes with full authority. Those in the half-light exist on the periphery without access. [What we might have heard in the future, excerpt from the script]
What We Might Have Heard in the Future is a science fiction based radio drama that investigates history in the future tense. It questions the use of behavioral biometrics as authentication and validation of one’s subjectivity. Such narrows parameters bring into question structures of power as processes of inclusion and exclusion in regard to representation and the voice.
This project has been curated by Chamber of Public Secrets for Manifesta8.