 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
When do you speak, how do you speak, the insistence of the word, speaking, a culture of the word. When do you make that move, taking on a subject position, speaking to make a political statement, a formal artifact, or the abuse of that. Drowning in signifiers, scrambling through life, worlds collide, is the ability of speech accessible, are the objects of life, "to have, to be." Fatmi analyzes how language has lost its power of understanding and communication, "deep in the mouth, the tongue is nothing more than a muscle."
In a sedulous, cyclical methodology, the tape full of clutter shows how speech and the corollary of being heard, are necessary ingredients for survival.
– Jayce Salloum
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Quotations from 'La Langue d'Adam' by Abdel Fattah Kilito
Mounir Fatmi ° 1970 Tanger, Morocco
Lives and works in France
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