Project Description

The Spartan scytale is the communication tool that does the most harm to the
universality of language. One wooden baton was kept in Sparta and the other was
given to a spy. To send secret information the spy wrote onto a strip of parchment,
wrapped the strip around the scytale and then removed it. The strip travelled
without the wood. If it fell into enemy hands, they could extract nothing from it. “The
technology that I use is that of traditional book binding. When binding my books I
decode. The scytale is me. The audience leafing through these books find themselves
weaving with their own fictions. The scytale is you.” Guillaume Cassar

April 2011