Soma 1988

Overview

“Soma” presents an archaic language of bodily symptoms. In comparison with contemporary medical symptomatology more dependent on quantitative measures, this archaic language of the human body and its suffering seems equally, but more qualitatively, observant. “Soma” goes further, however. These language-encodings of symptoms – Soma’s micro-narratives of pain – must be injured in their turn by the lexical confusion of jokes. The video, “Soma”, was made in 1988 on a Chyron text generator, a hybrid