How can the heartbeat become a measure of time passing?
How does the body become a form of communication in the absence of language?

 

Rhythmic Subjects uses dialogue and language as central propositions to investigate the nature of encounter through internal bodily experiences. This piece focuses on the articulation of experience and draws on themes of intimacy, repetition, continuation, and time.

The sound of a heartbeat can be so faint that we often ignore its presence as each day passes. Yet when we do notice it, the sound can feel deafening. Through the translation of internal bodily sounds, the heartbeat is reimagined as a communicative agent—one that reflects a heightened physical awareness of presence.

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Rhythmic Subjects is a performative piece that explores internal bodily rhythms through the tapping of one’s own heartbeat. By activating bodily senses and extending durational time, the performance evokes an unsettling awareness of our relationship with the human body—a creative reimagining of the metronome, replaced here by the organic rhythm of life itself. In doing so, a new form of dialogue and communication is made possible.