Luis Jacob
Toronto, Ontario
"Without Persons" is a multi-media installation centered around two computer-generated male
and female voices speaking about being-in-the-city and being-with-others. Accompanying the audio are
two video screens which will abstractly and resonantly illustrate the spoken text. The artificial voices
speak in an earnest manner about being with others in society -- voices that seem to belong to the concerned
but disembodied surrogate-parents of an uncannily absent child.
As audience members, it is within us that is produced the primal scene of conception and birth, the
emergence of our budding consciousness, and our entry into a well-managed existence. The eagerness to
communicate expressed by these caring, parental voices contrasts poignantly with the inhuman aura of
artificial speech.
Luis Jacob, Without Persons, 2006, Poster
photography: David Frankovich
Without Persons, 2008
Multi-media Installation
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
A7 Maple Leaf Gardens, 60 Carlton Street
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