mehmet ali simayli
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I May Swim Slowly
I May Slowly is a performance piece which explores modern condition of accelerationist ideologies through a absurdist theater performance.
The piece originates on a William Burroughs’ story called “The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar”. The story was elaborated by accelerationist pioneer Nick Land on the early Cybernetics Research Unit blogosphere. In the piece, the performer is a lemur impersonation, performing different realities of accelerationist thoughts on topics like technology, drugs, geopolitics, superstitious and more.
The conversation which takes place in the piece was recorded through real human vocalizations. Later on I have applied phonorealist techniques to vocalize the conversations through electronic-algorhythmic musicalisation of it. At this stage, there is a reference to Peter Ablinger’s phonorealist pieces and techniques.
The piece was performed at the ACT Festival 2025 at HEAD – Genève.