LEADEN SPEECH

2023, digital sculpture, 7’46”
Author: Tanya Akhmetgalieva
Sound: Victor Mazin

The series of sculptures “Lines of flight” was originally created specifically for the inter-media-lectures by psychoanalyst, art theorist, and philosopher Victor Mazin “Psychoanalysis in the space of sounds. Schizoanalysis in music”, which were devoted to aspects of the relationship between psychoanalysis and music. Inter-media-lecture is a combination of various media or streams - sound, voice, digital art, and light.

The performance revolved around bird and composer ritornellos, touching upon stories about the face and voice; about the rhizome, which is called upon to fight against the roots; about corrugated and smooth musical spaces; about the becoming of sound matter in the short stories of Franz Kafka; about the intensity bands of the body without organs by Antonin Artaud; about the transcendental and immanent planes of music; about schizoanalysis by Felix Guattari; about lines of flight from paranoia and also, about becoming-non-human, assemblages; as well as about wishing and musical machines.