Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus Nothing About Us Without Us.

Pas Moi is Diana Anselmo's new lecture-performance, the final chapter in a documentary and emotional research project that explores the web of power and domination woven into traditional historiography. 

While his previous performance Je Vous Aime – which later became a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin – highlighted the re-educational implications of the first projections of moving images, Pas Moi follows a parallel path and, from a Deaf and signing perspective, explores the genesis of the first instruments for recording, transmitting and reproducing sound, showing how the celebrated devices at the origin of the future music industry were conceived with the audist intention of “curing” deafness. A disease to be eradicated or made to disappear into the fabric of the hearing world, rather than an identity, a culture with its own language and community.

Pas Moi imagines where one can go if another is the starting point — beyond the “lack of hearing,” further ahead.