I stand between racks and shelves in the shop Via headphones I listen to the latest news broadcast of BBC-World Service while trying to speak along with the news reader with as little delay as possible for me. The duration of the news-broadcasts is 5 minutes, preceded by a one-minute introduction in which I don't speak and which is more or less audible for the audience, leaking from the headphones. At some moments my speech is a fluent imitation of the news reader's words, accent and intonation. At other moments I completely get lost in the stream of words. I do this with the 24 news broadcasts of the day.
year
2015
date
16.04.2015
location
Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik) shop for experimental musik and poetry, Berlin
curator
Daniël Löwenbruch, Tochnit Aleph
photography
Daniël Löwenbruch
further information
In 2014, I developed the performance Real space - real time, where I made myself function as a medium between a specific location and the world, in an attempt to speak simultaneous with the newsreader of the most recent broadcast of BBC-world news live.
Due to Daniël Löwenbruch's request to make an artists publication with his label Tochnit Aleph, we decided to make a record of a full day of the world news via my voice in his Berlin shop.
It was our intention to publish these recordings on a double cd, titled '16.04.2015 am/pm'