Irgendwo zwischen Saint-Denis, Montreuil, Kapstadt und Marseille
Diese Soundarbeit ist Teil der Podcast-Reihe Museum of Breath.
Mit: Ousmane Cissé, Hassan Abdallaye, Souleymane Soumah, Barbara Manzetti, Nicole Koffi, Sabrina Pennacchietti, Caroline Sébilleau für die Familie Rester. Étranger (Stimme, Texte und „Rezepte“), Olivier Marboeuf (Gedichte, Stimme, Aufnahmen), Victor Donati (Aufnahmen, Schnitt und Sounddesign), Asher Gamedze (Schlagzeug), Ntone Edjabe, Benjamin F. Kollie und Blessing Tony (Stimmen), Liz Young (Stimme und Übersetzung)
Mit Unterstützung von Ateliers Médicis
The absence of home is home
The absence of family is family
I speak because
I am the guide
I speak because
I am the storyteller
I did not choose
to be the guide
And I did not choose
to be the storyteller
For I have no language to tell
The absence of language is my language
I have no language to tell the racism
And humiliation
I have no tongue to lower my eyes
I have no language to say fear
And anger
I speak in the absence of language
Of humiliation
And fear
The anger in my belly
speaks with my mouth
And speaks with my skin
The absence of the tongue is my home
I want to speak here
And I want to speak and remain a stranger
I am the eye and I am the mouth
The mouth is my home
And the eye is my secret home too
I am the eye of the one who was made a guide
I did not decide
I was angry that they called me the guide
Because I didn’t know what to do
With my fear
Of my bones
With my anger
With my sweat
And with the absence of my tongue
My absence of language is my home
I made a place for myself in the language
I carved out a place in the language
And this place is the house
where we remain strangers
together
And language and the absence of language
is the family
where we stay strangers
together.