I speak, I lie, I admit

Abstract: This essay accompanies Hokuto Kodama’s choreographic work Untitled (I speak, I lie, I admit), following its creation process. Through investigating the process of subjectivation of dancers using the theory of Michel Foucault, the essay questions the conventional tendency to ignore the relationship between linguistic activity and choreographed dance. The argument moves on to criticize the naïve view that takes silent image as innocent, through the image analysis of Roland Barthes. This critique is combined with careful analysis of the system in which performative utterance works, making it possible to discuss performativity of image and act through the works of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler. This speculation meets with Foucault’s idea of government, leading the argument back to the system of societal constitution of subject through performance. The essay closes with an emphasis for the importance to resist against performativity of mass-information that shapes our perception, under the current society of control.