Talker

Talker is a video-book, a reworking of an unpublished artist’s book (with Andrew Bick). The public voice of Talker champions “truth” and is always praying for those he meets. His refrain (You have left the asylum and are waiting for a taxi to take you to paradise) is a gambit to the losers of the world. But he keeps a private journal (Diary of a Network Methodist) in which he articulates a deep scepticism, exposes lost love and his history in the asylum. There are (too) many words/images in the book. The video (with scenes from Dreyer’s Day of Wrath) attempts a fugue, an escape from memory: an oscillation between stillness & movement, language & silence, love & truth.