Glossographia 2006
Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB
performance; 4-channel video installation

Glossographia is a performance using a beef tongue to write/draw calligraphy, switching randomly between 5 different languages. Throughout the performance, the text gradually slips and slurs into automatic writing, akin to a graphic equivalent of glossolalia. The tongue is branded with the Hebrew word vayomer, which means “(and) to say.”

Glossophagia is a simultaneous performance with audience participation, for which beef tongue is served as hors d’oeuvres during the opening reception.

1: production still
2: performance
3: installation view
4: performance
5: performance
6: performance
7: Glossophagia 2006 (beef tongue served as part of opening reception)

photos: Jessica Tse

See "The Problemed Body" by Ashok Mathur

 

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