The silent words

A text resides in the computer and is displayed on a screen. However, it remains indecipherable, because the software continually invents new logographic symbols to represent each word. It generates them, permutes them, and thus continually creates a new writing system, a new code for representing thought. The “silent words” device is part of the “typewriters” series (like the “typewriter 1” installation ). These are single machines that express themselves for themselves, by themselves , in themselves , without interaction with the observer. They continually produce writing according to logographic, syllabic or alphabetic systems whose operation remains hermetic and mysterious. The goal of the “typewriters” is to explore what makes up the “breath” of writing, to experiment with the deployment of this gesture that gives meaning, by its very movement, to humans, and moves time forward. "Les mots silencieux" is more particularly part of a research that explores the relationship between gesture and sign, as other works explore the relationship between music and language. I will cite as a reference Brion Gysin, in whose pictorial research tended to rid writing of the signifier and semantics in order to invent an imaginative and silent thought. The hidden text in this edition of "The silent words " is reproduced below. It may change depending on the editions.

"I am what you say from day to day, believing you are saying something else, but also a whisper in you that makes you move forward and everything you will never be able to say but whose words you are searching for with determination and you build yourself on this determination and I am the words of love that you say and which are not understood and the words of love that you will not say because those to whom they are intended will never be known to you or already dead, but I am also a prayer for the one in whom you believe without knowing it and who saves you in spite of yourself and a prayer for the one in whom you believe knowing it but whose name you do not know I am the hidden text I am an ignored law I am the testimony that no one asks for I am your story destined to be forgotten and I am also what you read in the eyes of the other and which is not true or which he himself ignores but above all I am what he says and which you do not hear and what you say and which he does not hear I am a law that we does not know and yet is always there I am the memories that you have forgotten but which guide all your gestures and I am the lack of words and I am all the words at once your shadow and the sun"