Two rock-looking speakers broadcast a speculative dialogue between Clarice Lispector and Pascale Ogier. Personified by the voice of Eva Y. Michaelson, the dialogue is built with written words from the writer and spoken words from the actress. It addresses the entanglement of human and inhuman life, deep time and becoming-ghost.
Dialog:
I am your talisman. I am a woman object and my aura is vibrant. I am an object that sees other objects.
it felt like I’ve known you for years..... you’re in all places at all times.
I had always been in life, and it matters little that it wasn’t I properly speaking, not what I’d usually call I. I was always in life. I go on accumulating myself, accumulating myself, accumulating myself.
I don’t remember if it was me
I am not even sure I even believe in what happened to me.
Maybe I’ll tell you what really happened. If I learn to trust you.
The world looks at itself in me. Everything looks at everything, everything lives the other; in this desert things know things
Je voudrais vous demander une chose, est-ce que vous croyez aux fantômes ? (...)
A place in the world is waiting for me to inhabit it. I was made for no one to need me. I occupy a place and even after death I shall continue to occupy the earth.
There’s no ghost around here, I know where there are anyway. it was my voice in the machine. didn’t you recognize it ?
Things had gone back to what they were Once there was a man who walked, walked and walked and stopped and drank cold water from a spring. Then he sat on a rock and rested his staff. That man was I.
I like juxtapositions
the inhuman part is the best part of us, it’s the thing, the thing part of us. we shall be inhuman being is being beyond human