Mouthsaic explores how digital tools promise clarity but often return echoes: inaccurate voice recognition, erratic translation, faltering pronunciation. The installation choreographs three moments of deviation, listening, translation, and repetition, and turns this chain of errors into an aesthetic experience. The result is a “contemporary Babel” where meaning slips between codes and accents, and where the audience, through its intervention, completes the piece and discovers itself as the “other.”
Far from being a technical flaw, misunderstanding becomes poetic and political matter, a way of perceiving the distance that separates us and of activating empathy toward those who speak from the margins. The work proposes a place of improbable agreement, a fleeting sense of community born precisely from the impossibility of speech.
Technologies: custom software, two specific devices, two webcams, microphone, computer, projector, speakers, internet
Space: dark and silent
Dimensions: variable
Production: LABoral + Comunidad de Madrid
PureData: Andrés Felipe Duarte
HTML: Joaquín González Gigosos
Exhibitions:
- Circuitos de Artes Plásticas (LABoral, 2017–2018);
- Descomunicados (Set Espai d’Art, 2018); 15ª Mostra (MAC A Coruña, 2018).
