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 discourse. Different position toward 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