We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Heather Warren​-​Crow - Audio Evidence of Indefinite Universal Supplication Breakfast

from FUTURIST / Sound Art Compilation / 2020 by Futurist 2020 / Multiple Artists

/

about

www.heatherwarren-crow.com

"Audio Evidence of Indefinite Universal Supplication Breakfast" (2020) documents a performance from July 2020 in which I ate breakfast while saying the phrase "The voice of the people is the voice of god," a translation of the old proverb vox populi, vox dei. This phrase indexes my conflicted position on the concept of the people's will (Which people? Whose will? Do we even know what we want?) as well my concern over unchecked political power. The immediate impetus for the piece was my anxiety over the future of America--both the outcome and aftermath of the November election--and the country's trending fascism. The action of the performance, a breakfast in its entirety, emphasizes the tension between eating and speaking--eating makes speaking less intelligible, and speaking while eating can cause choking--as a political problem. The viewer-listener accesses this action through recorded sound, allowing the performer (me) to remain as faceless as the people whose voice is the voice of god.

credits

from FUTURIST / Sound Art Compilation / 2020, released December 21, 2020
BIO:
Heather Warren-Crow is a performance artist based in Lubbock, Texas in the United States. She uses the sound of spoken language as her primary medium. Moving between live and pre-recorded performance, she has shown her work in galleries and in performance spaces, on monitors and on stages, in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, India, Japan, Mexico, Tanzania, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and across Europe and the United States. Most recently, Warren-Crow exhibited sound art in Novi Sad, Serbia and video art in Arizona in the US. Her video We Should Have Died in 2020 When We Had the Chance, which appropriates tweets with the hashtags #covid19confession and #quarantineconfession, was screened at the Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival in late October.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Fem-Media-Art Amherst, Massachusetts

contact / help

Contact Fem-Media-Art

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Audio Evidence of Indefinite Universal Supplication Breakfast, you may also like: