The Voice Agent
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, 2016

This piece forms part of Ecolalias (Echolalias), a series of podcasts commissioned by the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, centered on the paths traced by the voice when it is placed in circulation to become the echo of a body it is inseparable from.

This voice that breaks; this voice that staggers, or talks back; this voice that dreams from within its own shelter; this voice, always already elsewhere; this voice that interrupts; this voice – the one that murmurs (are you there?); a drunken voice; this voice resounding through words of compassion, friendship; this voice to which one must respond; this voice that may also hurt, or inflict; and which is never so simple, or singular, and yet is only itself; this self, a plurality – a potential, flushed with longing and distraction; this voice on the way to language: will it arrive? This voice that one offers; that grows tired, ghosted by the possibility and the madness: this voice that touches the limits of the permissible and the ordered, that breaks in; this voice that recites, or mimics; which one may recall, as that primary tether; and that enables; this voice that seeks new relations – echoes. To this voice listening turns, and is turned. 

Voice: Alessandra Eramo, Almut Kühne, Mat Pogo
Additional: J. Zabroski, Moonchild
June 2016