Cyn Micheli (they/he) is a trans-disciplinary artist and researcher working with language, sound, and performance. They explore possibilities of queer becomings through text, body extensions, alter egos, and shapeshifting voices. Engaging with corporeal and fictional existences, his artistic practice dismantles our current socio-political construction of reality, leaking into urgent spaces of collective unknowability and disorientation. Through a disobedient and poetic lens, he explores the affective and relational edge networks between liquid bodies, shadowy monstrosities, and tender encounters.
Shift Slightly: They Melt My Tongue is an experimental performance that explores embodied knowledge and diverse voices within trans bodies.
Words can be ingested, metabolised, and transformed into sound, movement, and affect, creating a more visceral and shared experience of language. Language is in fact conceived as a ruin: both a broken system and map of failures, where time and space lose themselves in the unspeakable and undefinable, in a state in-between deviation and queer notes-tones. Shift Slightly: They Melt My Tongue navigates liminality through glitched speech, silence, and noise, reconfiguring remnants of
language into something new and fluid, and inviting the audience to engage in its endless
reformulation.