Alumni Clara Mosconi current with exhibition and publication launch Paralingual Score. Opening Thursday 24 October 17:00-20:00, with a Performance at 18.00 at BLADR in Copenhagen.
In the exhibition A Paralingual Score, the public is invited into a space, where the invisible and underheard dimensions of language come to the fore. The installation presents a paralinguistic polyphony, composed of the material that escapes the mouth, when our speech gets tongue-tied.
A choir of eight voices perform a graphic score that spreads across Bladr's walls in a cyclical composition. The score is based on an interview Mosconi did with a woman named Sara in Linz, Austria in January 2024. Sara is multilingual, and has experienced that her mother tongue has gradually faded. The interview centered on the complexities of, navigating several languages, about fluid cultural identities and the (in)significance of the mother tongue.
The interview is one among many, and the score was created using The Paralingual Index – a new and playful communication system, which consists of 32 symbols, where each represents a paralingual phenomenon in our language. Mosconi uses the symbols to make transcriptions, which she considers a form of graphic score.
Exhibition period
October 24th - November 9th, 2024
Programme
Thursday 24 October 17:00-20:00: Opening. Performance at 18.00.
Saturday 26 October 13.00-14.30: Presentation of the publication Paralingual Score with artist Samuel Brzeski
Address
Griffenfeldsgade 27, 2200 København N
Denmark
The exhibition is further activated on the opening night by the Italian soprano Felicita Brusoni.
The exhibition is based on Clara Mosconi's publication Paralingual Score, which is part of the seres Vibrational Semantics, edited by Samuel Brzeski, commissioned by Lydgalleriet in Bergen.
The publication will be launched on Saturday 26 October at 1PM, where editor and artist, Samuel Brzeski will present the series Vibrational Semantics.