Radical Ventriloquism: Acts of speaking through and speaking for
as part of London Conference in Critical Thought 2019
Goldsmiths University of London, Saturday 6th July
Organisers: Dr Lee Campbell (UAL) and Christabel Harley (UAL)
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Ventriloquism, in its most common usage, refers to a form of popular entertainment consisting of performers giving voice to inanimate objects through a careful interplay between what is heard and what is seen. The beginnings of ventriloquism can be cited in the jester’s scepter. The jester gained power by not using his own voice. He spoke through the voice of his scepter—a miniature representation of his own face. Similarly, ventriloquists speak through their puppets as a way of “distancing” themselves from criticism.
What may constitute a radical ventriloquism as useful and applicable to enabling important discussions about what it may mean to ‘speak through’ and ‘speak for’ others/objects/things across a range of artistic/creative disciplines? Whilst recognising that ‘in Nietzsche’, as suggests David Goldblatt, ‘the artist allows certain forces which he designates at will, to move and speak through him.’, this stream includes presentations from individuals and groups from beyond arts and humanities to explore how, for example, a scientist would conceptualise ‘radical ventriloquism’?
Goldblatt in 'Art and ventriloquism' reminds us that, ‘in Foucault, while certain persons speak for things (art and nature), persons also speak for other persons, those muted in the social Diaspora such as the mad, the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned. Disability is often presented and represented by abled-bodied medics and others. This aligns with Linda Alcoff’s assertion in The Problem of Speaking for Others (1992) that ‘privileged authors who speak on behalf of the oppressed is becoming increasingly criticized by members of those oppressed groups themselves’. We will theorise, articulate and demonstrate how radical ventriloquism nudges at these crucial debates: ethics/politics of representation / giving voice to those ‘marginalised’.
We shall question who gets to (and who should) speak for whom.
9:30-11:00
Radical Ventriloquism: Introduction
Lee Campbell and Christabel Harley
AutoInterruption: Abstraction and disembodiment of the performed voice
Gemma Marmalade
Writing from diaspora as an act of radical ventriloquism
Ting J. Yiu and Nadja Schaetz
Desktop films: the act of seeing with someone else’s eyes
Gala Hernandez
11:30-1300
Using Alternative forms of Communication to Interview Adults with Deafblindness
Atul Jaiswal
Nothing About us Without Us: The Challenges of Participatory Autism Research
Lisa Quadt
Normative sightedness, non-normative blindness: how museums represent 'Blindness' through access provision
Marinella Tomasello
14.00-15.30
Listening to Materials – co-designing in the Anthropocene
Jane Norris
Throwing voices: the commodification of culture, from art Biennials to celebrity
Ian Brown et al
Wet Words and Dirty Talk: speaking through ecosex intimacies in the work of Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Jon Cairns
Dr Lee Campbell
Dr. Lee Campbell FHEA
Academic Support Lecturer (Camberwell and Wimbledon)
Artist/ Researcher
Camberwell College of Art
45-65 Peckham Rd,
London SE5 8UF
https://leecampbellacademic.blogspot.com/p/new-performance-practice-how-can-i-get.html
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