Choreographed monologue, 18 min | 2019
An erotic monologue that explores the speaking subject’s complicity within its own linguistic colonisation. Alternating spotlights dissect the performer’s body, highlighting the hand and the mouth’s role in naming and owning. The actor enacts repressive forms of silencing by repetitively pushing her fingers into her own mouth and speaking with water held within the oral cavity. Fluctuations in the voice and the body's posture, alongside choreographed blackouts and hued floods denote a changing emotional landscape charted on a sexual, psychological and corporeal terrain.
Performance presented at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) and produced with support from Creative Scotland's Open Project Fund.
Photo credit: Vilte Vaitkute