Rehearsal of a seance: how to make oneself all ears
May my body be house for yours,
may my lips move
but this voice may not be mine,
may I make myself all ears.
During a seance session four mediums channel words
by four feminist writers from literary material around
the politics of production of voice, disciplinatory
technology of silencing and the attempt to recover
language from the white heteropatriarchal discours.
Different positiontoward speaking, being silenced
and the possibility to find words.
bell hooks: the situated and embodied position
of radical marginality, speaking from, feeling from,
the voice of revolution; Gloria Anzaldúa: the forceful
reappropriation of border languages, creating speech
faithful to the ‘new consciousness of mestiza’. Luce
Irigaray: the erotic affermation of a different way
to make sense of the world and speaking about it,
‘neither one nor two’. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha:
the generational trauma of language displacement
and linguistic coercion, gasps, slippages, fractures,
from dictation.
performance documentation at PIPExpo, Den Haag, in December 2021
during “Momentje Asjeblief: I'm lost for words”, a show with Lena Longefay and Struggling Art Space about representation, artist labour and feminist genealogies
with Mel Chan, Lucy Cordes Engelman, Ghazale Moqanaki (substituting Shardenia Felicia due to sickness) and Noor Remmen as performers
photo by Hani Chladilova
Script of the performance
Riso print, 26x19 cm