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Przemówienie/Speech Clare Charnley and Magda Sowierszenko

By Clare Charnley 2006

Geoff Clout

Part of series of evolving collaborative performances in countries that do not have English as a first language. I deliver a speech in the language of the host country. Gradually it becomes clear that I am acting as a mouthpiece for someone else – That I am repeating words that some unseen person is electronically whispering in my ear. Although my voice and gestures are expressive, they have an arbitrary relationship to my speech – evidently I have no idea what I am talking about. Everyone else understands ‘my’ words
C C Clare Charnley

Untitled, Work made for The Anatomicum, Tartu, Estonia

The language lesson (100 teachers and 1pupil)

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