In FADAT’s video performance COME TO BED, two bodies are trapped in a tangle of electrical cables. Subjected to a strange force, the creatures keep repeating each other’s words and slips of the tongue. Communication thus becomes utterly impossible. In this alienating universe, Mahín and Groothuysen explore how determinism can be represented linguistically and visually. Determinism is the idea that our behaviour -and in this work also our language utterances and bodies- are completely determined by background causes and past events, over which we have no control and of which we are mostly unaware.


credits
concept, performance & direction - FADAT (Manuel Groothuysen & Diane Mahín)
camera - Julia Schmitz
set assistance - Liz Abels

texts edited and translated from: 'A Primer for Cadavers' by Ed Atkins. Copyright Ed Atkins, 2016, courtesy the artist and Fitzcarraldo Editions.