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Evasion, or how to perform a tongue escape in public

(2000)

Holding out your tongue as far as you can for as long as you can. See related text piece: as far as you can for as long as you can. More videos stills can be found at KunstRadio as part of the hold, still web project. Live recording of this adapted and rearranged for the CD accompanying the book Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies Press, 2001): AUDIO (4:04).

Live setup: The live performer tries to last as long as the pre-recorded performance which followed the instructions stated above. Two video projections, one live, one pre-recorded. The sound on the pre-recorded version consists primarily of sounds from the first performance of this piece in Montréal, 2000. The image on the pre-recorded version comes from a studio recording done at the ORF in Vienna in the Summer of 2001 for the hold, still web and radio project.


Presentation History

- 2006 Montréal (installation, Galerie de l'UQAM)
- 2003 Ottawa (performance, Gallery 101)
- 2002 Reims (performance, Dimanche des curiosités/Fin de Novembre, Manège de Reims)
- 2002 Baltimore (performance, The Red Room)
- 2002 Brussels (performance, stuttermouthface/Sonic Square, kaaitheaterstudios)
- 2002 Los Angeles (performance, Beyond Sound Festival, Beyond Baroque)
- 2001 Los Angeles (sound and text publication, Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language)
- 2001 Vienna (web project, KunstRadio)
- 2001 Geneva (performance, Festival de la Bâtie)
- 2001 Montréal (screening, Ultrazone.01/micro, Théâtre La Chapelle)
- 2001 Vancouver (screening, disclosures at The Blinding Light)
- 2000 Montréal (performance, l'instant du presbite enculé festival)

Photo legend & credit: bottom row: live images, Beyond Sound Festival 2002, credit: Randy H. Yau.