speech

In her experimental video speech, Michaela Schwentner has taken up the invitation by French musician Paul Clouvel to illustrate his composition of the same name. Michaela Schwentner trenchantly aestheticizes Paul Clouvels soundscape, for which, among other things, he deconstructs the language of contemporary artist Joël Frémiot.

speech thereby emerges as a multiply overwritten communication process among artists from various disciplines. Like a choreographer, the video artist Schwentner carries out the visual metamorphosis of a standard dance, which begins from something unrecognizable. On the sound track, electro-acoustic processes and intense fragmentation render a text spoken by a dominant male narrating...