The Weirding Module listens into spoken word and the voice in contemporary art and experimental music but what can we say about the genocide in Gaza? and what else can we talk about but the genocide in Gaza?
As the death toll rises, a constant stream of statistics flow from the greyed-out media space, these numbers are debated, weighed against each other and cast into doubt by press and governments who explicitly or implicitly support the violence. Statistics are mute and brutal, they don’t allow for the specificity of the lives that they collectively document. They no longer contain any sense, yet it’s impossible to ignore them and incumbent on us not to look away.
There is a whole strain of contemporary poetry and music that utilises numbers as text, as language....
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