"I feel a certain plurality or reflexivity in my body. German anthropologist Helmuth Plessner once said that “our first otherness is with our body, or, more precisely, in the equivocal relationship we have with it”.
I therefore unconsciously felt the need to dissociate my consciousness from my gestures, and to this end I began a self-analytical artistic work on my relationship with my own physical body. As a dysorthographer, I think I've developed an emotional relationship with my own body. And to live it to the full, I set about staging moments of disability such as dictation or rapid note-taking. To get into condition, I use all the stereotypes of school dictation...
I plunge my body into an unpleasant environment. My brain, unable to keep up with the rhythm, abandons my hand, which tries to transcribe what it can. Soon the rhythm of the diction becomes instrumental, my consciousness dilutes and the writing gradually becomes distorted. The words become mere impulses and for a brief moment I'm just a physical body without any consciousness.
I float in a trance-like state, my hand unconsciously tracing lines. This brief moment when I'm no longer there allows me to create surprising things graphically.
So my dictations are not formal but a kind of energetic exorcism of my hand seeking to express itself outside my consciousness."
- Samy Snoussi