Emily Roby, T A L O S
January 2023
Format : 181 x 181 mm ; 6 pages, inserted in a handprinted bag (220 x 220 mm)
ISBN : N/D
Edition of 100
Riso printed, 2 colours, black and metallic gold
Language : English
Layout : Marie-Lyne Tarabulsy
T A L O S is an interdisciplinary effort bringing together writing, electroacoustic music, performance and visual arts.
Here, a misadventure propels the protagonist into the script of Talos, an early ideation of a robot that emerged from ancient Greece. Having lost a bolt at his ankle, the bronze automaton lets out the ichor that kept it artificially alive. The formal and acoustic similarities, imagined and recorded, between the myth and the spilling of a water heater inspire the autofictions in the libretto, from which the themes of memory and water emerge. In the form of bodily fluids, robotic hemorrhage or osmosis, the omnipresence of water projects the reader and the listener into a universe of vulnerability, urgency and scarcity.
Emilie Roby is a performance artist and musician from Northwestern Quebec.
More information : emilieroby.ca/
A download code is included in the booklet to retrieve a 22-minutes audio piece.
Listen here : emilierobytalos.bandcamp.com/album/t-a-l-o-s
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