When Language Fails unfolds in three sections — Unveiled, Entwined, and When Language Fails — three intimate portraits tracing the wild, the civilized, and the suppressed in us all. The work explores the fault lines between self and society, posing the question of boundaries between ‘I’ and ‘we’: how waves of politically and socially defined identity can warp and distort the deep self, and how identity is shaped, silenced, and reclaimed through the body.

Featuring Sierra Oszust, Nicole Charlton Goodbrand, and Will Jessup, with Marie France Forcier and Wojciech Mochniej in the closing duet, the work moves between the expressed and suppressed, the civilized and the wild — three human stories that resist easy resolution.

Presented at Fluid Festival 2025 and the Pro Series at the University of Calgary, November 2022.