Inarticulate, 2002
Inarticulate is both a performance and an installation piece. It has to deal with feelings of inability to express one's self. It has to deal with those times where you are speaking and you're tongue feels like it must be coated with wax because of the way that you trip over it repeatedly and just simply cannot get your sentence out. In this piece I repeatedly cast my tongue in liquid wax. I hold my tongue out until the wax dries and then throw that wax casting into the room's corner. Each of those castings represents a moment in time when I was unable to express myself. I feel that all those moments and awkward memories stay with us throughout our lives and they build up in a corner of our brain and we carry them around with us.
Materials: Inarticulate includes 1200+ wax castings of the artist's tongue, sound, video, and optional performance
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