𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀: 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹-𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲

by Mircea-Andrei Florea

”what is the nature of language” – what a troublesome question, and what a tangled history of answer attempts. What started as a search for its binding thread, steadily shifted into a belief that the question itself worlded the not-so-easily-inhabitable world we forced ourselves and others to inhabit. Alternatively, I asked myself, how can language, or words, be seen as reparatory practices, relational becomings? I merged the knots of this discoursive turn my research took with wildlife videos taken by trail cameras. They are artefacts of ephemeral circumstances, not meant for the bare human eye to see: ghost-like figures, their eyes glowing; even in the recordings, they seem absent. Non-human tracking, as feral becoming, means learning a visual language in which signs are no more visible than the half-presences in these shots.

Mircea-Andrei Florea is a text mixologist. He lives in Bucharest.