boca que habla

The script and staging of No yo (2018) are a distant reminiscence of the 1972 play of the same title by Samuel Beckett. This video is a monologue performed by the isolated lips of Ikram Bouloum, in which the voice describes a sequence of six scenes: a teenager tries to remove a stain from her clothes, an actress submits to the dictates of a theatre director, a child has a higher-pitched voice than desirable, a radio presenter loses his voice, an academic’s tongue swells inexplicably, and an intern is publicly shamed by her boss. The voice is thus explored as a physical phenomenon, both in speech and in discourse.

Its author, Lúa Coderch, combines narrative practices and object-based practices in videos, performances, and installations that she configures as research devices.

The video will be accompanied by an intervention by blanca arias, curator of the series, who will relate Lúa Coderch’s piece to other resonant images. Together, we will attempt to reflect on dissonance, polyphony, or aphonia as subtle forms of resistance. What sounds and what remains silent between silence and the scream? What undisciplined uses can we give to a tongue, a throat, a pair of lips?