Nora Turato conducts a rigorous, experimental, and multi-format investigation into the state of communication amid an era of incessant interaction. Her work manifests in spoken word performances, books, typographic animations, spatial installations, and graphic objects. Culling language from online and offline sources—such as newspapers, blogs, social media, TV series, IRL conversations, and more—Turato constructs complex, absurdist scripts to capture the frenetic energy and accelerating pulse of consumption. She was trained originally as a graphic designer, a background that informs her structuring of language and its delivery. Turato’s process involves creating an ongoing series of artists' books that collect texts over the course of an entire year. These materials serve as the starting part for the artist’s manifold explorations. Rejecting the increasing smoothness of contemporary life, Turato’s work across media introduces bumpiness into everyday speech—generating friction to encourage closer attention.