It begins in your bank and extends to your throat

publication; 23 pages containing essay
2024


These pages were written during a residency in Czechia at Cabin Studio run under Studio Hrdinů, in October 2024.

This text begins with the mishearing of a word. It starts from the place of inconvenience and unravels a hearing not contained within one fixed conversation.
A hearing that has been expanded into a writing that begins in your bank and extends to your throat when its language heard writes itself into and onto the muscles. 

‘It begins in your bank and extends to your throat’ ruminates on how digital algorithms turn words into capital, disciplining both language and the body. Its writing explores how search engines link profitability to vocabularies and how productivity dictates posture, raising the question of whether we can separate language and our bodies from economic structures.


Designed by Sankrit Kulmanochawong.
Riso printed at Kudla Werkstatt.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union and Goethe-Institut.