Exhibited at THIS Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, for the unsettled exhibition November 1, 2021 - January 30, 2022.

 The bridge is over, the noise is not is an environmental performance about the politics of noise and collective loneliness. 

The bridge is over, the noise is not is a thirty-minute walking and thinking act of perdition during rush hour, when only the noise of headphones and disconnected dialogues can compete for my inner sonic chaos. Behind a mask, among an army of workers surrounding noisy and mechanical agencies, I try to find myself, my thoughts and my voice and offer them to strangers.

No one is listening. No one can hear me.

New York is the natural habitat of the politics of noise, and capitalism is the invisible leverage dictating our automated behaviors. While walking on the bridge, I am able to feel my voice disappear between cars, bikes, streaming services spitting out compressed music and the subway choreography. 

When my thoughts and feelings are not enough, I read the voiceless graffiti on the asphalt and every architectural opportunity. Silenced words are my last anchor.

While crossing the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, I can perceive the end of humanity. The progressive darkness doesn’t make us gradually shadows, but the noise does.

The linguistics of noise operates as a high power. Members of the human factory don't have to talk about it, we just have to believe in it.

We don’t see each other. We can’t hear ourselves. 

We can’t feel when the other is no more.

There is no us, not even I, just the noise.