HELP!
I'm looking for voices from anywhere on the Brexit spectrum
Deadline: 20th September 2019
IN A NUTSHELL...
I'm seeking people who speak (even if just a little) EU languages for a Brexit-related art project. All official, co-official local languages and even dialects spoken in EU countries are welcomed! Submissions that are only in English are hugely appreciated as well! You can submit several recordings, and more than one language! The more the merrier!
Your contributions will be the building blocks for a series of Brexit Litanies. Through this project, individual Brexit Voices (I repeat, from anywhere on the Brexit spectrum) will come together in one Brexit Chorus.
Please find all the necessary context and info below.
For the practicalities on how to contribute with your voice, please scroll the the bottom of the page
I'm seeking people who speak (even if just a little) EU languages for a Brexit-related art project. All official, co-official local languages and even dialects spoken in EU countries are welcomed! Submissions that are only in English are hugely appreciated as well! You can submit several recordings, and more than one language! The more the merrier!
Your contributions will be the building blocks for a series of Brexit Litanies. Through this project, individual Brexit Voices (I repeat, from anywhere on the Brexit spectrum) will come together in one Brexit Chorus.
Please find all the necessary context and info below.
For the practicalities on how to contribute with your voice, please scroll the the bottom of the page
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I have a Spanish and a German passports to my name, and have lived in the UK 19 years already. I identify as a European Mongrel. Artistically, I make work from the position of an outsider. Hybridity & otherness are cornerstones to my performance and live art practice.
I have already touched upon the notions of Europe and Brexit in previous works. You can check them out on my website under the PERFORMANCE section: “No More These Sounds” (2016); and “Bride of Brexit” (2019). Both of these performances welcomed and engaged audiences from different positions on the Brexit spectrum. They were attempts to find a common ground for discussion among people in different 'camps'. |
I'm currently conducting practice research on the dramaturgy of lists, musicality, task-based performance, and strategies to mess with meaning-making processes. I'm very drawn towards the concept of a litany: a list which is musically arranged, featuring repeated elements and variations, and which acts as a kind of incantation of supplication, praise, lament... I am working on a new response to Brexit that uses these ideas as guiding principles of its composition.
For this project, I am also looking to erase my agency as authoring artist and delegate/surrogate it in YOU! In a first phase, people are submitting their voices reading a few sentences (see below). In a second phase there'll be a call out for sound editors, DJs, composers... They will then take the voices gathered in the previous stage and 'finish' the piece by each composing a Brexit Litany.
For this project, I am also looking to erase my agency as authoring artist and delegate/surrogate it in YOU! In a first phase, people are submitting their voices reading a few sentences (see below). In a second phase there'll be a call out for sound editors, DJs, composers... They will then take the voices gathered in the previous stage and 'finish' the piece by each composing a Brexit Litany.
I would like YOU to help compose BREXIT LITANIES!
I want ALL OF US to create a DEMOCRATIC work of art!
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR VOICE
Do you speak (either fluently or just a little) a language from the EU?
It could be any of the languages belonging in any of the current EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
The project welcomes any language from the above countries:
- Official languages (English, Polish, Spanish...)
- Co-official languages (Welsh, Catalan, Basque...)
- Local languages and even dialects (Manx Gaelic, Geordie, Corsican, Romani…)
Please record yourself reading the sentences below in the languages of your choice. Please remember you don't have to be from somewhere or speak the language perfectly! Contributions of just the sentences in English are also welcome! If you want to share more than one contribution, using different intonations/pitches/modes of delivery or different languages, you are more than welcome to! As mentioned before, please feel free to play with pitch and intonation as you see fit. You could even try and record a few options! That way we'll create a more richly layered and musical litanies.
If you speak English & another language:Please record the following:
(in English) “Goodbye ______.” (insert the name of the countries/regions of your choice) -pause- (in the languages of that place) “United Kingdom, goodbye.” -pause- (in English) "______, goodbye!" (insert the name of the countries/regions of your choice) -pause- (in the languages of that place) “Goodbye United Kingdom!” |
If you just speak English:Please record the following:
(please remember that English regional accents are also welcome, as well as languages other than English which are native to the UK - in that instance, follow the other script) “Goodbye ______.” (insert the name of any countries/regions in the EU you'd personally like to say goodbye to) -pause- "______, goodbye!" (insert the name of the countries/regions of your choice) You can do this for several countries/regions! |
Please send your contributions by 20th September as separate audio files to:
pablopakula @ gmail .com, stating BREXIT LITANY as the subject of your email. Please indicate your name, and the language you have chosen to share.
Finally, it would be amazing if you helped me spread this CALL OUT as far and widely as possible. Please feel free to send this invitation to participate to anyone you know. You can also use these on Twitter and Instagram: #BrexitLitany #BrexitLitanies #BrexitVoices #BrexitChorus.
Thank you very, very much!
Best wishes,
Px
pablopakula @ gmail .com, stating BREXIT LITANY as the subject of your email. Please indicate your name, and the language you have chosen to share.
Finally, it would be amazing if you helped me spread this CALL OUT as far and widely as possible. Please feel free to send this invitation to participate to anyone you know. You can also use these on Twitter and Instagram: #BrexitLitany #BrexitLitanies #BrexitVoices #BrexitChorus.
Thank you very, very much!
Best wishes,
Px
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Why is the project titled HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? “All those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE!” The quote above comes from the end of Jean-Paul Sarte’s 1943 play “Huis Clos” (commonly translated as “No Exit” in English). In the play, three characters arrive in in hell – which happens to be a drawing room. As they struggle to understand what has led them to here, and what their punishment may be, they quickly gather that there is no torturer. No executioner. No flames to burn their souls eternally. It’s just the three of them, trapped in a deadlock.
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