zıvana: the pin that joins two parts — zıvanadan çıkmak, “to come off the pin”: to lose one's temper, to go off the rails — Wiktionary (after TDK · Nişanyan)
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To Greek ears a language they did not understand sounded like “bar-bar”; whoever spoke that way was a barbarian. The word is a rhythm first and a verdict second. Issue zero takes the rhythm back: voices from every geography and every language that were once called wild, mad, crazy, out of bounds — the original on the left, the translation joined to it, the source in view. Sound poems with their sounding, drawings with their ink, an archive record with its slip.
Poussin's ink shows through the letters — from the sketchbook.
-Τι περιμένουμε στην αγορά συναθροισμένοι; Είναι οι βάρβαροι να φθάσουν σήμερα. -Γιατί μέσα στην Σύγκλητο μιά τέτοια απραξία;
Or, je trouve, pour revenir à mon propos, qu’il n’y a rien de barbare et de sauvage en cette nation, à ce qu’on m’en a rapporté, sinon que chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n’est pas de son usage ; comme de vray il semble que nous n’avons autre mire de la verité…
jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla grossiga m’pfa habla horem égiga goramen
О, рассмейтесь, смехачи! О, засмейтесь, смехачи! Что смеются смехами, что смеянствуют смеяльно,
I AM: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,
Zıvana does not copy the recording; it files the record and points to the door. Made for radio by a man then confined to an asylum and banned before it aired, this work is the question of issue zero: who is the madman, who the barbarian, whom does censorship serve? The recording can be heard at the INA.
