This short video loop began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie. Like other multinational corporations, Lernout & Hauspie was a visionary company where money, techno-utopias and the cult of the entrepreneurial personality helped to create the ubiquitous “market bubble”. In the case of ‘Speech Bubble’, Leech takes on the character of a pathologically optimistic salesman in dialogue with a mysterious client.
Speech Bubble was shown inside a site-specific bubble at Moderna Museet Malmö and at Manifesta.