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The Voice as Uncanny Index (Susan Hiller)
November 25, 2019
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“In the darkened projection room, the viewer hears twenty-five voices in succession speaking short passages in extinct or endangered languages. Susan Hiller collected the recordings for her twenty-one-minute audiovisual work The Last Silent Movie from a variety of archival sources. In some cases, the narrator is the last known speaker…
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Re-listening to Virginia Woolf
November 25, 2019
“Woolf’s method of recording noise and response is unique among
modernists. In Ulysses, for example, Joyce also shows a heightened sensitivity to resonance, and like Woolf, he underscores representations of
noisy machines. Yet while Woolf presents sounds as inextricable from
her characters’ thoughts, in Ulysses utterances are generally objective
and…
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Where signs become forms and forms become acts
November 25, 2019
WHERE SIGNS BECOME FORMS AND FORMS BECOME ACTSand the power of words and surfaceshow words become thingsthe becoming-thing of wordsthat invent spaces
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