Sound installation + limited audio-zine editions
Can You S…?
A nervous system caught in unstable transmission—between message and noise, presence and absence, connection and collapse.
The work emerged in the days after the recent Iran–US–Israel war. It is not about the war itself, but about what prolonged crisis does to perception, memory, language, and the body.
One participant enters the horizontal sonotube. Inside, a 7:33 composition moves through fragmented narration, unfinished conversations, radio interference, static, breaths, buffering sounds, and mutating motifs.
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A state of suspension
"Focus on your body." "Relax the part of your body that remembers."
The piece destroys itself by being transmitted
After listening, the participant finds a QR code. The download is not documentation. It is another state of the work. A custom delivery system makes every download permanently transform the edition received by the next person. Software appears here because transmission is the material of the artwork.
- edition_001 → words disappear → breaths distort → silences expand → edition_200
Can you still feel my presence?
Exhibited within
To Share a Stomach, The Brick / LAXART →
Can You S…? lives on as an audio-zine. canyous.com →
Credits
- Artists
- Maryam Lashkari & Hodjat Salimi + Oscar Tuazon
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