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Discurso/Speech Clare Charnley and Guillermo Santamarina

By Clare Charnley 2006
Part of series of evolving collaborative performances in countries that do not have English as a first language. Can artists from different cultures work with each other in ways that are not simplistic (based on understandings that are without the subtleties and complexities of lived experience) or homogenizing? If I acknowledge my lack of knowledge, can this be used as a starting point?
C C Clare Charnley

Muscles, a collaboration with performance artist Lisa Watts

The gift of tonguers

Untitled, Work made for The Anatomicum, Tartu, Estonia

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