Performance 07.12.24 2 – 7pm

Knot

A one day exhibition and performance featuring new sound and related work by Hannah Ellul and Rebecca Wilcox.

Knot knits ideas around laboured language with moments of affective rupture—encounters where the material world and the sensing body come up against each other in unexpected ways.

Working with voice, field recording and sound synthesis, Wilcox and Ellul hone in on speech and sound as rhythm, depth and distance.

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Performances 2.30, 3,30, 4.30, 5.30

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There are some grounding cues that this new work reflects on. One cue, which frames our approach to collaboration, is Carla Lonzi’s idea of resonance as a feminist strategy of mutual recognition and realisation. Another is the idea of the calque—a translation term describing a particular kind of borrowing, taken from the French word for copy, or more literally, to trace by rubbing. With this literal friction at its heart, calque distills ideas of tactility, language and doubling.

We are interested in strategies of repetition, in the echo, the copy, the cast, the rehearsal, the mimic, the parrot, the ape. We are interested in the spatial and affective relationships of the copy—how intimacy and distance, attachment and detachment co-exist there. And in its time, too, in how it comes to be a kind of asynchronous conversation, with its own boundary-maintaining tendencies and commitments. We are also interested in thinking—in a way attentive to sound’s materiality—about the experience of learning and losing language; the aural, tactile, physical aspects of it, of attempts to find new meeting points; and moments of hesitation as well as the possibilities inherent in laboured language.