Moving Image Atelier
Rehearsal for Future Conversations
19 October 2023 (10:00am - 15:00pm) - Extra City, Antwerp
In their exhibition at CON10UR, elephy listens to the human voice. A manifestation of the speaker’s distinctiveness, the voice resonates in reciprocal communication with other voices and amplifies through collectivity, opening the possibility of a different mode of political existence. Rehearsal for Future Conversations is a one-day workshop in the framework of elephy’s show at CON10UR that brings together artists, thinkers, and practitioners working with the voice in different forms. They all share insights and experiences from their various practices to inspire each other during a moment of community. The event is open to the public upon registration.
elephy organises this event together with Kunsthal Extra City, C0N10UR and LUCA School of Arts as part of the SLARG 2023 research week.
With the generous support of:
Kunsthal Extra City, LUCA Breakout, SOFAM, and MORPHO
Location: MORPHO, Ploegstraat 27, 2018 Antwerp
Please register for the workshop here.
The participation fee is 15 Euro and includes a vegetarian lunch by quitapena
Sint Lucas Antwerpen students or researchers can participate for free but must register!
Program
10:00 elephy
Welcome and round of introduction
10:15 Sonia Pastecchia
Breathing and Speaking with Intention I
In a spirit of playfulness, filmmaker and voice coach Sonia Pastecchia will help us understand that voice is breath. Through simple exercises borrowed from singing and stage expression techniques, we’ll see that intention adds meaning to words. The first session will focus on the breath and the sound it engenders. The second session towards the end of the day will focus on working with intentions: what is the emotional reality hidden in the words spoken?
10:45 Joint reading from various texts selected by elephy
11:15 Break
11:30 Maggessi/Morusiewicz
Wormholes
Maggessi/Morusiewicz, a Vienna-based duo of researching artists, present their practice that currently revolves around two simultaneously-running keywords: “wormholes” and “archives.” The artists will invite the audience to step into a polyvocal portal of affect, cruising through clusters of film-based references to sci-fi, pre-AIDS gay-art porn, and women’s cinema archives.
12:00 Mona Hedayati
Human vs. Machine Logic: Constructing Affectivity beyond Voice
Iranian-Canadian artist Mona Hedayati draws on her interdisciplinary practice to lay down her artistic strategy of deconstructing the voice through audio recordings integrated into performative pieces. Hedayati will delve into the codes of affective-embodied sensor-to-sound performances that aim to tap into the senses rather than the logical operation of image and language to communicate the ineffability of her lived experience of migration and exile.
12:30 Joint lunch for all participants by quitapena
14:00 Laszlo Umbreit
Recording voice is a nightmare
In many soundtracks, voice is the most common object of analytical listening (i.e. interpretation and meaning) where it often adheres to aesthetic conventions of mainstream aural culture. Sound designer and musician Laszlo Umbreit challenges these conventions, derived from mental projections on how a voice should sound, by opening up the many realities in which the sound of voice can exist.
This talk elaborates on the process and technical possibilities for voice recording, why it is a difficult task and proposals for getting it done. It shines a light on the choices artists can make to define their own aesthetic approach for voice, and beyond, in moving image.
14:45 Sonia Pastecchia
Breathing and Speaking with Intention II
15:00 elephy
Artist talk and joint visit of Double Voiced at Kunsthal Extra City.