Must Be Talking To An Angel

MUST BE TALKING TO AN ANGEL explores the performative potential of a set of technological tools that process, modify, or imitate the human voice. These technologies widen the already existing gap between voice, body, and identity, disconnecting these three components from each other. What can we learn from this new state of affairs about the body-voice-identity relationship? If our voice is not (or not only) our own, if it is largely filtered, but also copied, stolen, if one can speak to disembodied voices, or hear the voices of deceased people, how does all this, in turn, influence the notion of identity, so intimately linked to voice and body? Is it possible to find, beyond the dangers lurking, a potential for liberation in this disconnection? Can voices without a source, just like angels, tell us things we cannot say?

MUST BE TALKING TO AN ANGEL explores the performative potential of a set of technological tools that process, modify, or imitate the human voice. These technologies widen the already existing gap between voice, body, and identity, disconnecting these three components from each other. What can we learn from this new state of affairs about the body-voice-identity relationship? If our voice is not (or not only) our own, if it is largely filtered, but also copied, stolen, if one can speak to disembodied voices, or hear the voices of deceased people, how does all this, in turn, influence the notion of identity, so intimately linked to voice and body? Is it possible to find, beyond the dangers lurking, a potential for liberation in this disconnection? Can voices without a source, just like angels, tell us things we cannot say?