Lazarus Slept and rested, then rose
Animation excerpt
Digital animation
2018
Lazarus Slept and rested, then rose is exhibited as part of XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE?, a new installation by Visual Artist Siobhán McGibbon and Writer Maeve O’Lynn, exploring post-human regenerative therapies. These post-humans attempt to communicate through means that humans can no longer understand: despite having embraced bio-tech and animal hybridization, communication continues to pose a challenge in a way that is all too human. This dialogue will, therefore, be experienced through the mediums of poetry, visuals and music, highlighting the redundancies and inadequacies of ordinary language to form the basis of much meaningful communication, culminating, instead, with movement, animation and non-lexical song.
XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE? is part of McGibbon O’Lynn’s on-going Xenophon Project collaboration and is inspired by the work of twelfth-century Catholic mystic and noted natural historian Hildegard von Bingen, who developed one of the first invented languages, Lingua Ignota, for purposes unknown; perhaps to communicate with people and societies far in the future.
www.xenophonproject.org
Animation excerpt
Digital animation
2018
Lazarus Slept and rested, then rose is exhibited as part of XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE?, a new installation by Visual Artist Siobhán McGibbon and Writer Maeve O’Lynn, exploring post-human regenerative therapies. These post-humans attempt to communicate through means that humans can no longer understand: despite having embraced bio-tech and animal hybridization, communication continues to pose a challenge in a way that is all too human. This dialogue will, therefore, be experienced through the mediums of poetry, visuals and music, highlighting the redundancies and inadequacies of ordinary language to form the basis of much meaningful communication, culminating, instead, with movement, animation and non-lexical song.
XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE? is part of McGibbon O’Lynn’s on-going Xenophon Project collaboration and is inspired by the work of twelfth-century Catholic mystic and noted natural historian Hildegard von Bingen, who developed one of the first invented languages, Lingua Ignota, for purposes unknown; perhaps to communicate with people and societies far in the future.
www.xenophonproject.org
