JHVH: Demonstrative Component

Performance; ca. 5 min

As part of a more extensive performance-event / lecture performance, JHVH: Demonstrative Component took place as a short performance at the beginning of the event.

A few participants are seated at a table. A5-sized booklets are distributed and the speaker draws attention to the front cover on which the paleo-Hebrew equivalent of the letters 'JHVH' appears along with an abstract background image that was produced through sound visualization. A subtitle reads: "GENESTALGIA in LYRICAL ETYMA: A Multimodal Language Event." The booklet's page order is arranged from right to left.

The speaker withdraws an old, black mobile phone from his pocket. A number is dialed and it is placed on the table. The phone is on loudspeaker: The international call lingers. A rehearsed female voice answers the call in broken, conjectural Modern Hebrew. The speaker answers his mother in a similar fashion. The dialogue proceeds until the speaker's mother is thanked and the call is ended.