SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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.

All videos are produced on one take, that is no cuts.

 

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