The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things

11:55 min (loop)
2 channel HD video, 4 channel  sound
Voices by Kenneth Constance, Saleen Gomani and Valeriia Weinrub
2022

The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things is a line from the text the Dialogue of the Exchequer, written around 1180. In it, a master explains to his deciple how an early form of monetized economy is upheld by describing the tax court of the king. The new economy is portraid with poetic allegories as something sustained performatively, not as a natural system. In the animation The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things the text is chopped up and put together again to a repetitive choir piece.