...I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head
VALIE EXPORT
Austrian, born 1940
2008
A video in which VALIE EXPORT uses endoscopic footage, sound, and subtitles to turn the act of voicing into a visible, intimate investigation of the body and speech.
You confront a tight, pink-lit tunnel of throat tissue and vibrating vocal folds—grainy digital artifacts and the subtitle “I’ve hardly spoken a sound and already it’s gone” make the ephemeral act of utterance feel startlingly exposed and material.
By bringing medical imaging into artistic performance, EXPORT extends feminist body art into technological registers, making the normally invisible processes of speech and interiority legible and politically charged.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
11: 34 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of VALIE EXPORT and Miryam and Daniel Charim
Accession
564.2012
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
