𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞
Who is silenced when another voice takes the stage? What happens when we speak another’s words?
𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 is the work developed for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 by Mercedes Azpilicueta and Angeliki Tzortzakaki with performer Maria Sideri. Based loosely on encounters recorded in the marketplaces of Athens, it takes the form of a script studying emotional affect in the languages of solidarity and communion shared between women in the public realm.
https://backtalks.city/project/you-bring-joy-into-my-life/
The artists will discuss the work with project curator John Bingham-Hall as a microcosm of the politics and processes of giving and taking voice. Questions in the making of this work become debates about the ways we hear, ignore, record, edit, and speak the words of others in the public sphere.
How can we make audible that which is edited out and make visible our own positions by revealing what is not there? For city-makers, these questions are crucial: how to translate the everyday narration of experience into the language of urban ‘decision-making’? Could scripts be seen as infrastructures for sharing the work of voicing what it means to live together in the city?
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Part of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸, a program that brings together architects, urbanists, activists, artists, and anthropologists to explore the voicings of contemporary Athens. A collaboration between Onassis Stegi and Theatrum Mundi.
More info: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/city-talks-back
Discussion and live reading group featuring Mercedes Azpilicueta, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Maria Sideri and John Bingham-Hall
Maria Sideri is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018
FREE LIVE STREAM https://backtalks.city/live/
25.11.2020
18.00 GMT // 19.00 CET // 20.00 EEST