CHILDREN ENFORCING THE LAW (16’30”, 2019) documentary
This film consists of film photography and a narration. The voices and images are those of a group of teenagers who volunteer as part of a school initiative to wear law enforcement uniforms to help adults to manage the traffic. The kids reflects on the experience of this position and the effects of wearing a law enforcement uniform on their day to day identity.
A series of white British actors with RP pronunciation responded to my call to donate an hour of their time. I asked each actor to learn a script penned by a refugee. Each text is a testimony about an instance of linguistic difficulty as they are forced to exist in a new language. The actors must learn to deliver the errors in the texts thus referencing the difficulty of the language learner.
#language and subjectivity #politics of language #lingua franca & imperialism #verbatim performance #refugee social integration #speech subject & the subject of speech #language and embodiment
Critical analysis: Productive Ambiguities, Bodies, Mistakes, and Voices in Laura Malacart’s Vocings, (2015) Karin Anzivino, Research Master in Cultural Analysis, UVA, Amsterdam.
MUVE (Museum of Ventriloquial Objects) Reconfiguring Voice Agency in the Liminality between the Verbal and the Vocal. (2011), Laura Malacart, Phd Thesis, UCL.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BIRD AND A PLANE (25’ 50”, 2020) video essay
The Difference between a Bird and a Plane (in three episodes) uses performance, digital video and analogue photography to challenge ideas resulting in the exploitation of the natural world.
The three chapters (or ‘episodes’) focus on: languages and nature, the illogical nature of borders and the healing role of art.
The script has been published both in English and in Italian in Animot Journal (2021) http://animot.it/english-animot/
Episode 1: ‘The Language of the it’ is published in Language & Ecology Journal (2020) https://www.ecoling.net
