By 25th Biennale of Sydney artist Maritea Dæhlin, this live performance brings together spoken text, repetition and vocal gesture as a way of producing language, meaning and attention in public space. Drawing on earlier works developed across performance, sound and video, the piece unfolds in close proximity to the exhibition, activating voice as instruction, address and disturbance. Through repetition pushed toward excess, shifts in tone and duration, language begins to slip, generating multiple registers at once. The work treats listening not as a given, but as something that is continually negotiated between voice, body and gaze, allowing seriousness and absurdity to coexist without resolution.
The Turbine Hall stage can be found on the upper level of the Turbine Hall towards the far, southern end of White Bay Power Station. You can enter the building at any entrance point and make your way to the lift, which is located in the centre of the building, proceeding to ‘Level 2’. When you exit the lift, make your way through the doorway to the right and continue left towards the end of the building. The stage will be visible on your path.
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Credit photo: P.T.O.Y.M.P., 2019. Photo: Fruzsina Berkes / Kunstbanken.
