Unheard Heard Unheard
Vandana
2013
Performance Video
1:15 Minutes
©Vandana The Artist
Courtesy Vandana The Artist & Stiftung Futur
DESCRIPTION
Part of the rituals of self series, Unheard Heard Unheard bypasses the throat’s habitual refinement of sound into speech. By pushing the voice past language into raw scream, the work forces two organs — throat and ear — out of their normal functions and into an unfamiliar exchange: the throat produces sound it was not trained to make, and the ear receives what it cannot process as meaning. What remains is the body’s unmediated vocal force — heard and unheard simultaneously.
I scream as loud as I can and listen to my scream with as much concentration as I can.
Vandana 