‘Mimesis got your tongue’
002# Manifesting Voice: 34+ Mn(p)ne(u)monic Actions is a more-than ensounding event. It is both personal and public and acts as a
political engine and loving disruption. Dissolving words into geo and biophonic murmurings, shifts language from a human culturally
encoded position into a Mn(p)ne(u)monic voice. Mn(p)ne(u)monic becoming memory and breath in relational motion.
Singing-with mother tongues across biological and the more-than brings grief into skillfulness. Poethical gestures and vocal associations reflect what it means to live in a time of limited elderhood and planetary commons.
‘Voice-as-urgency’
This work was presented at the 2021 COVA Memory Conference, University of Melbourne.
Featuring: Artist-as-Avatar Sophie Stefanou
*hummmmm ahhh ohhhhhhhhh slipt tone
voice is not individual
voice includes the whole body and everybody
nerves, tissues, bones and spaces
voice is not specialised
voice is not soprano, instrument, orator or lecturer
*ahhhhhh eiiiiiii
voice is flexible
voice is volcanoes
voice is affected by the market
but is not the market
voice is neither the knower or the known
voice is not god
voice is not total
voice is not self-sufficient
voice is not an ideal
voice is not evaluation
voice is not contained yet it contains socio-economic, biological and cultural realties
voice is not object, form or content
voice is not type A
voice is not administrated
voice is not cleverness
is not edited
*aaaaaaahhhhhheiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyooooopig noises
voice is polyphonic subject making
voice is not one
voice is repetition
voice as activities
voice is crafted out of ecologies of practices and never primarily human
voice contains the all-too-human
voice as life-living
voice as the voice-less
voice as shifting law
voice determines its own reason…
*kkakakakakakakkakaahhhhhhhhhhhh