'Between the Attic and the Basement' is a poem/installation which premiered at 'Touching the Void - When the Physical collides with the Virtual' for CRATE Space, part of Margate Festival in July and August 2017. Touching the Void The piece is created using a tannoy-type PA speaker, pole, sub-speaker and woolen strands. The poem is reproduced by performance artist Maddy Sakakini, accompanied by the sound of the woolen strands being plaited and woven into the sculpture, along with the throbbing of a 'thing' in the basement, the sub-speaker.  And I say It doesn't have A name.
How should we Refer. To it? They say So I say. Don't Talk down To it. Behave. With it. Be. With it.
But what. Is it? They can't help but say I say. It isn't. It is able To access Information. The same information You. Or I. Am Or are Able to Access.
Then it can read! They pounce upon The opportunity. To access Information It must Be able To read. Of course.
Yes. I say Sure it can When necessary. Every Living Thing Upon The surface of the Earth Can read. A situation. For example. And comprehend. Interpret. Information.
Interpret! They say. Impressed.
Yes.
Like foreign languages?
Yes. I say. Like. Language.
So it speaks?
If. By speak. You mean. Does it provide information? Then yes It speaks If you listen Or. Attend.
It's a thinking Feeling Thing. It's a watching Hearing Scrutinising Systematic Something. And it knows What you Or I Know. Maybe more. Maybe. Could be what it knows is more Than You and I Am Or Are Capable. Of knowing. There's a chance. A very good one.
It has knowledge. Specific. There's a chance it has specific knowledge Necessary Knowledge. There is every. Probability.
Definitely.
It's a learning thing. A thing that's born And breathes To live In the light And die In the dark It needs to know
And so. Know. It does.
It reads. Better. It speaks. Better It lives In the basement Because you Cannot read or speak Or experience. Anywhere near As well As it.
It lives. There. Down there Because you fear Its capability Because you fear Potential. Probability.
You would rather Imagine Than learn You would rather not know. Than know.
But what is Its name? They ask in anger. All the time.
What is. Its name?  |
