Behind Laurie Anderson, climbing onto her back, a long list of deleted words in recent years of North American federal documents (activism, anti-racism, barrier, climate crisis, discrimination, diversity, clean energy, pregnant women, equality, black people, women, Native Americans, belonging, trans, bias, among many others, inventoried in March 2025 by New York Times). While extracting tearful notes from her violin, the artist remembers that, by eliminating words, the ability to name is eliminated — a shortcut to the disappearance of ideas, of concepts that language embodies. In other words, a programmed and strategic action by a political faction to shape and transform (and funnel) reality. Similar, in reverse, to the introduction into public discourse, for donald trumpof a possible third presidential term (prohibited by the Constitution): by talking about this all the time, what was previously a practical impossibility becomes a topic that can be discussed.
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