A People Without A Voice Cannot Be Heard (A.P.W.A.V.C.B.H.)
A People Without a Voice Cannot Be Heard is commissioned by Northern
Lights.mn and the Walker Art Center.
Project Description:
Our voice is used to sing, protest, comfort, teach, haggle and express a
range of emotions. When voices come together, a panoply of energetic
phenomena can emerge. Using "voice" to explore the commons, A People
Without A Voice Cannot Be Heard is one month of workshops, film
screenings and public events that amplify, coordinate and channel the
individual and collective voice. Auctioneers, theorists, choirs,
ethnomusicologists, local newspapers, artists, and speech pathologists
have been invited to consider “voice” as a tool for exchange and
liberation. Like a barn raising, we will claim physical space, printed
space and create a series of objects that will raise the voice of the
people.
The arc of events will be like punctuation in a story {'"?<&,>':;"} but
all of the exciting information will be the words coming out of all of
our voices together. We will look at how the voice has been used in song
to pass time, to elevate the spirit and to create commradery. Also, we
will consider how a "common voice" can be framed in media; newspaper,
television, radio. We will claim physical space, printed space and
create a series of objects as a means to raise the voice of the people.
We are not sure if that will sound like an auctioneer or a whisper.
In the spirit of free/radical schools as spaces of cultural production
and creative resistance, A People Without A Voice Cannot Be Heard will
be a free and open framework that will facilitate learning and sharing.
Using a mulitidisciplinary approach we will work with a range of
practitioners to consider the use of voice as a tool for exchange and
liberation; artists, theorists, ethnomusicologists, auctioneers and
conductors. Participants will be asked to contribute their skills and be
open to teaching what they learn to newcomers.
*When I was young my friends mom put soap in my friends mouth for
something that he said. We promise to you we will not use soap as a
learning tool.
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