Boars, Lamp Black, and the Record of Coming Out: a Duet
Performance as part of Queereal Materialities Live!, The Glasgow School of Ar
14 March 2024
Performance
Sound
Archives
Queer
Performance as part of Queereal Materialities Live!, The Glasgow School of Ar
14 March 2024
Performance
Sound
Archives
Queer
‘Boars, Lamp Black, and the Record of Coming Out: A Duet’
Originally music and lyrics by Adam Kaasa
Performed live
Queereal Materialities Live!
The Glasgow School of Art
In 2008, a human voice is excised digitally from a line traced with boar hair, on a paper covered in lamp black soot. It is now argued to be the earliest human recording of voice, predating Edison’s familiar recording by some 20 years. In this performance, I examine the record, the act of recording, playback, and recollection through a duet with my mother. Together, in conversation and song, we question voice, body, carbon, mark, record and memory with respect to queer life.
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Queer Materialities Live! brings together contributors from the exhibition and publication Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice (2023) for a live in person event a the Glasgow School of Art. Expect live performances, short screenings, readings, singing, discussions, and artworks that approach the lecture theatre as exhibition space. The Queer Materialities Research Network (QM) foregrounds artistic research through practice in all its pluralities. We are an inclusive group that welcomes those that identify as queer alongside those that do not but engage in queer methods of making. QM Live! mobilises notions of queer across the grammatical spectrum as verb (to queer); as noun (the queer) and as adjective (th great queering). It seeks to actualise and question queer community through presentation, response, liveness and sensory experimentation.
Originally music and lyrics by Adam Kaasa
Performed live
Queereal Materialities Live!
The Glasgow School of Art
In 2008, a human voice is excised digitally from a line traced with boar hair, on a paper covered in lamp black soot. It is now argued to be the earliest human recording of voice, predating Edison’s familiar recording by some 20 years. In this performance, I examine the record, the act of recording, playback, and recollection through a duet with my mother. Together, in conversation and song, we question voice, body, carbon, mark, record and memory with respect to queer life.
*
Queer Materialities Live! brings together contributors from the exhibition and publication Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice (2023) for a live in person event a the Glasgow School of Art. Expect live performances, short screenings, readings, singing, discussions, and artworks that approach the lecture theatre as exhibition space. The Queer Materialities Research Network (QM) foregrounds artistic research through practice in all its pluralities. We are an inclusive group that welcomes those that identify as queer alongside those that do not but engage in queer methods of making. QM Live! mobilises notions of queer across the grammatical spectrum as verb (to queer); as noun (the queer) and as adjective (th great queering). It seeks to actualise and question queer community through presentation, response, liveness and sensory experimentation.
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