what are the limits of language the limits of? The following work and projects are part of a practice that works as a type of digging (think root canal) into the tropologies of the common mouth. It borrows attitudes, characters and cultural frames of reference to re-contextualizing extremes of language into a range of peformative visual work. (think vntriloquism) This is intended to be uncomfortable work tunneled towards monstrous spaces of stubborn sounds that dismay as much as they discomfort. The work bashes out verbal gestures that move towards the raw and the obscene as an open queries into the said and further into the unsaid. In this margin the flawed vies with dopey, insults with the deadpan, goofy, brutal, strange, funny, the gone awry, the vulgar, with the mis-grammared vernacular. All is burlesque, a grotesque-opera, a droll stop-gap revealing the rupture of the unsaid in the misshape of speech. In process since 1990, this line of work has focused on performing the Sounded OUT by creating dummies and scores that are represented increasingly in the virtual vocabularies. They are between...and so nameless things that bulge and protrude into the language of non-sense. As thing, they are a sort of heard as they are approached through sites of both abjection and pleasure. And as in all language this sounded one is like perfume, they have an unpredictable indecipherable affect. I have an interest in working with 'lowbrow' materials and 'widearm' networking http://majenamafe.com/ http://that-unsound.blogspot.com/ http://sounded-language.blogspot.com/ http://gertrude-stein-and-sound-inside-it.blogspot.com/ http://multi-maryfesto.blogspot.com/
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Projects by majena
 12789 ventriloquist project | |
 created 23/7/09  | digital ventriloquist dummies sing code |
| agency, animation, audiovisual, cyberfeminism, digital, language, net.art, performance, remix, video | |
| 87-channel-opera - for-sillience | |
 created 25/5/09 | collaborative project with Adam Potts building on conversations re sound, noise and language |
| audiovisual, collaboration, dialogue, digital, Film, interplay | |
| what does a feminist poet look /sound like? | |
 created 5/5/09 | A essay remix, think lowbrow cyberfeminism |
| agency, animation, context, cyberfeminism, feminism, satire, theory, video | |
| Flat Language and its Insults | |
 created 4/4/09 | Web archive of flat language pieces- suit walls or under the bed low low tech |
| abstract, dialogue, feminism, installation, language, object, poetic, remix, text | |
| Exhibition Speek/n out sound | |
 created 4/4/09 | Exhibition/Installation at QUT H Block of 8 sonic art video sound pieces |
| audiovisual, cyberfeminism, digital, installation, language, media art, performance, sound, video | |
| Multi-MARYfesto Project | |
 created 4/4/09 | A maryfesto is a list inspiring paradigms that shape creative work, be it sonic art, creative knitting, experimental ecriture writing or avant-garde painting practices...this is the place where every maryfestos written by a self identifying 'mary' is welcome. |
| aesthetic, community, database, dialogue, feminism, language, multi-user | |
| Droorn a Voice Opera | |
 created 3/4/09 | Sounded-language text to sound delivered voice opera, contains long 'flat' aria undoing the voice of voice...low tech go to http://majenamafetexts.blogspot.com/ for transcript |
| abstract, animation, audiovisual, conceptual, dialogue, feminism, language, media art, object, performance, sound, video | |
| Ventriloquist Project | |
 created 2/4/09 | This ongoing project is exploring the interface and sweet dis juncture between the ventriloquised mouth and language. Features performances, film and text. |
| interplay | |
| that-unsound | |
 created 2/4/09 | that-unsound is a very large hold all (blog), ((think woman's handbag)) all for the noisy un-sound SOUND, acting up as sounded language, inspired by Gertrude Stein Ada Lovelace and my attempts to write vertical experimental scores for language. |
| agency, archive, art Blog, audiovisual, collaboration, community, copyleft, cyberdomestic, cyberfeminism, database, digital, distributed creativity, DIY, feminism, language, media art, poetic, recycling, remix, video, web art | |
| Scores for Sounded-Language Project | |
 created 2/4/09 | Ongoing project working with 'scoring possibilities' for detailing the snorts, slurrs, slurps, and lisps in language |
| abstract, archive, conceptual, digital, language, remix, sound | |
| The Read Geometry Project | |
 created 2/4/09 | Time based project reading geometry text books and marking/making them red |
| abstract, books, conceptual, documentary, feminism, language, media art, object, performance, poetic, video | |
| Ariadne's Dead Thread | |
 created 2/4/09 | Collaborative work by Pamela Fitzgibon and Susan Buret, and myself entailing embroidering on meters and meters of linen tape words as they occurred to us, worked as a sort of low low tech archive |
| archive | |
| Thunder Words | |
 created 2/4/09 | Performance by the voice of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ... thunder words |
| agency, language, sound, video | |
| Swallow Hard | |
 created 2/4/09 | Collaborative work by Susan Buret and myself featuring the abstraction of abstraction and ribald limericks |
| collaboration, dialogue, DIY, feminism, installation, language, recycling, remix | |
| Sounded-Language Opera for Glossolalia | |
 created 2/4/09 | PhD research, practice-led...sound and film pieces all focusing on language and the sound of it. Site also contains my scores for sounded-language... all works in progress |
| audiovisual, digital, feminism, language, media art, performance, video | |
| Sirens at the Court of the Lady | |
 created 2/4/09 | This collaborative sound work began with the idea by Radio Phone's Nevio, from ALTRASCENA...the voices are, poet / performer Rosaria Lo Russo, Sara Davidovics, Chiara Daino Brandi and Irene, the singer / actress Raffaella Benetti, http://that-unsound.blogspot.com/search? |
| agency | |
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