Category: sound
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THE VOICE IN EXILE
Multimedia performance lecture with audio and video. The Voice in Exile responds to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s video Mouth to Mouth with an act of translation-as-ventriloquism. I make visible and audible the ghosted voices in Cha’s previous untranslated bilingual Korean and English work by animating her minimalist writing and gestures…
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ELLIPSIS III
Video with sound 6:00 and performance. A video and performance forming the third part of the Ellipsis series, which seeks to understand the linguistic, material, and spatial workings of desire through the poetics of the punctuation mark. Ellipsis III is a video shot through sheets of paper. Each page is…
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HAIR CUT PIECE
Performance with recorded/treated voice and remixed music. Hair Cut Piece was a one-off performance commissioned by Armpits4August (A4A) for their launch party. The campaign raised money for and awareness of polycystic ovary syndrome, while challenging gendered expectations to remove body hair. Reimagining Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece with queer feminist joy…
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STRIP
Performance featuring newspaper, card, duck tape, audio, and video 03:32. A short performance playing with the fetishism of the news cycle. All diegetic audio and video was sampled from the BBC news at 10 screened the previous day. The mask, skirt, and nipple covers were constructed from newspapers published the…
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52° 36′ 9.1″ N, 1° 25′ 19.5″ W
Colour video with sound 7:45 and book with translucent inlays 22p. 52° 36′ 9.1″ N, 1° 25′ 19.5″ W is a video and pamphlet documenting a site-specific performance. The project configures a feminist psychogeography through a combination of lyric, pastoral, and documentary poetry alongside pressed flowers, photographs, video, and field…
Hazel McMichael 