In the videoperfomanceproject Special Announcements the audience meets a disembodied head situated in an inbetween-space which addresses the viewer directly by the use of monologues, or what might also be an attempt to a conversation/dialogue.
The project investigates the process of using speech and how the words are delivered.
It deals with language not simply as a means of communication but also as a poetic and formal device. The character leaves empty spaces of silence offering an opportunity for the viewers to think, react and to respond in order to create a close connection with the viewer.
It investigates language through linguistic excercises, speech-acts and fonological experiments and its approaches to reality and how meaning is contained in words and their use, where rules are set out for speaking, as a system.
The information is delivered directly in the face of the viewer and the performance is strictly directed, for example the vocal delivery is sometimes fragmented and the keywords are first divided letter by letter later to be able to form a unity again. Sometimes the performative and theatrical matter of delivering the content is merely a stream of repetative language-games.
There are also connotations to a rethorical "truth-teller", and what might remind of a propaganda persona, who might in a certain context even transform into becoming an awful marionette.
The project revolves around Sederowsky´s questioning of authorities and autocratic ways: the identification of proclaimers of truths and their (non-) reliability as proclaimers of truth.
# rules #
still camera
monochrome background
own face and body
own texts
no cuts, filmed in one take
duration less than 10:00 minutes