2007
2:36 minutes
Bone Singer delegates the performance to an operatic singer, whose grandiose vocalisations are contrasted with the visceral noises of a dog chewing on a bone. Once again, the artist trades on a cryptic symbolism loaded with psychological potentialities. One could posit that the singer is like a dog chewing on a bone, producing sounds with the undesirable fleshiness of the inner body. On the other hand, the dog’s actions are framed through the lens of high culture, as its chewing is compared with the tonalities of opera. This slippage problematises the perceived difference between human consciousness and animal instinct. Bone Singer seeks to question linguistic codes and the limits of human communication by conjuring these moments of rupture.