I’m not myself, I’m not dead, 
I’m not tall, I’m not short
A phrase is entrusted to a person whispering it to their ear:

I have a certain name, my age changes every second. My origins say something about me. 
I am tall and short, young and old, beautiful and ugly. I look at myself, but i never see myself. 

They must repeat it to another person, and so on.
The sentence evolves due to the combination and addition of successive mistakes of interpretation. 
The cumulative error deforms the information as it spreads.

Identity is entrusted to others, leaving them in control of the situation.
Making use of ‘Chinese Whispers’, a well-known game for children,
alludes to the complex stratification of ideas about identity in people’s thoughts 
and sets in motion a process that results in the self-portrait:

I’m not myself, I’m not dead, I’m not tall, I’m not short.

Hannah Rettl - I’m not myself, I’m not dead, I’m not tall, I’m not short - Performance - Variable duration - 2019

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