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
 several small digital operas(operations) for Gertrude Stein | |
 created 26/7/10  | Remix, digital sound and language based works... can be played all at once or in any order that delights |
| art Blog, audiovisual, dialogue, digital, language, poetic, remix, sound | |
| true love as double troubled | |
 created 26/7/10 | Digital TV opera(operation) remix of cartooning |
| animation, dialogue, Internet Art, interplay, language, media art, poetic, satire, sound, TV, video | |
| sounding the other light...a biography | |
 created 26/7/10 | Ficto-critical novel or long poetic instruction manual for shifted perception |
| language, poetic, text | |
| snap snap snap your jaws | |
 created 26/7/10 | Collaborative work- ventriloquism |
| audiovisual, dialogue, digital, language, performance, sound, video | |
| grappled steps in the method making of writing | |
 created 26/7/10 | Instructions for writing 'methods' |
| agency, dialogue, language, poetic, text, theory | |
| whoppers at Jouissant play | |
 created 26/7/10 | Language opera(operation) (with chorus's) as a big whopper |
| language, satire, sound, text, theory | |
| Inside Alice's Facets | |
 created 26/7/10 | figuring the unstable world of perpetual meaning (means and unmeaning) in the word of an lit up face |
| feminism, language, poetic, remix, satire, sound, text, theory, Transgressive | |
| more-more-more-more-more | |
 created 26/7/10 | TV opera(operation) remix |
| language, poetic, remix, sound, TV, video, web art | |
| grinding-glory-song | |
 created 26/7/10 | Film/song |
| animation, audiovisual, language, video | |
| even the concertina -o- | |
 created 26/7/10 | Film/sound based on the notion of -O- |
| audiovisual, language, poetic, sound | |
| again and again and again and again | |
 created 26/7/10 | Animating the mouth=animated sound |
| animation, language, sound, video | |
| two-ay | |
 created 26/7/10 | Call+and+response+voice+song |
| audiovisual, dialogue, language, video | |
| singing a song with gestures | |
 created 26/7/10 | song gestures |
| audiovisual, language, sound, video | |
| stein sings | |
 created 26/7/10 | Gertrude Stein singing Blue-by-oo |
| animation, audiovisual, language, sound, video | |
| sound inside it | |
 created 26/7/10 | Sound-in out. First in a long list /series of animated ventriloquist dummy |
| animation, audiovisual, language, video | |
| unsaid exhibition | |
 created 26/7/10 | Collaborative exhibition with Mela Fitzgibbon and Judy Ann Moule |
| collaboration, event, exhibition | |
| pop-pop | |
 created 16/7/10 | song song song and pop-pop-pop featuring my best selling song 'Heidi's day' |
| animation, digital, glitch art, kinaesthetic, media art, performance, sound | |
| blobber ... sounded-language | |
 created 16/7/10 | short film, blob giving lecture on sounded-language ... |
| animation, audiovisual, media art, sound, video | |
| shuttle throat'n | |
 created 10/5/10 | Sound work exploring use of tools (shuttle) to weave and ex-tenuate throat sounds |
| agency, animation, audiovisual, body, cyberfeminism, gender, interplay, kinaesthetic, language, remix, sound | |
| o-zero-zero (and father has to keep a supply of stove wood) | |
 created 10/5/10 | two sound/video works, a project based on Linda Lovelace's zero machine but performed as a repetition, strung out on a line (literally) and then sawn in half by 'father' |
| animation, dialogue, digital, language, remix, sound, video | |
| The biography of sound... by Gertrude Stein | |
 created 10/5/10 | A mock biography of sound by Gertrude Stein. A work in progress |
| agency, blog, dialogue, digital, interactive, interplay, intervention, language, narrative, poetic, sound | |
| the sound of currrly toes | |
 created 9/5/10 | Two animated ventriloquist dummies, part of a double projection, exhibited in the 'unsaid' exhibition White Canvas Gallery 2010. Both were looped. |
| agency, animation, audiovisual, body, cyberculture, cyberfeminism, digital, exhibition, feminism, installation, language, media art, remix, satire, sound, Transgressive, video, web art | |
| twit-a-lot | |
 created 9/5/10 | twitt-(animated) ventriloquism |
| animation, audiovisual, dialogue, language, sound, video | |
| strip-articulate | |
 created 9/5/10 | Vertical-horizontal-articulation |
| animation, Internet Art, language, software art, sound, video | |
| blanks | |
 created 18/4/10 | Majena and Daniel Mafe are a collaborative team working in the area of the inarticulate-rupture that exists between image, sound and theory. The work Blanks, deals with the convergence of notions between Arakawa and Gins and Lyotard. |
| agency, audiovisual, collaboration, critical, sound, theory, video | |
| 12789 ventriloquist project | |
 created 24/7/09 | Digital ventriloquist dummies sing code- two screen instillation for Fresher Cunts exhibition 2009 |
| agency, animation, audiovisual, cyberfeminism, digital, language, net.art, performance, remix, sound, video | |
| 87-channel-opera - for-sillience | |
 created 26/5/09 | On-line collaborative project with Adam Potts and Majena Mafe building on conversations re sound, noise and language |
| agency, audiovisual, collaboration, dialogue, digital, interplay, satire, sound, Transgressive, video | |
| what does a feminist poet look /sound like? | |
 created 6/5/09 | A essay remix, think lowbrow cyberfeminism submitted to Delirius Hem in 2009 |
| agency, animation, context, cyberfeminism, feminism, language, satire, sound, theory, video | |
| Artist Web- Flat Language and its Insults | |
 created 5/4/09 | Web archive of flat language pieces- from exhibition Mary Mooore Cunt show- suit walls or under the bed low brow low tech |
| abstract, dialogue, feminism, installation, language, object, poetic, remix, sound, text | |
| Exhibition Speek/n out sound | |
 created 5/4/09 | Exhibition installation at Queensland University of Technology 2009 of 8 sonic art digital ventriloquised sound pieces |
| audiovisual, cyberfeminism, digital, installation, language, media art, performance, sound, video | |
| Multi-MARYfesto Project | |
 created 5/4/09 | 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 4/4/09 | 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 3/4/09 | This ongoing project is exploring the interface and sweet dis juncture between the ventriloquised mouth and language. Features performances, film and text. |
| agency, animation, audiovisual, conceptual, cyberculture, cyberfeminism, interplay, kinaesthetic, media art, object, performance, remix, satire, software art, sound, Transgressive, video, web art | |
| that-unsound | |
 created 3/4/09 | 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, sound, video, web art | |
| Scores for Sounded-Language Project | |
 created 3/4/09 | 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 3/4/09 | Time based project reading geometry text books and marking/making them read as red |
| abstract, books, conceptual, documentary, feminism, language, media art, object, performance, poetic, video | |
| Ariadne's Dead Thread | |
 created 3/4/09 | 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, (one phrase at a time) worked as a sort of low low tech archive |
| agency, archive, feminism, interplay, language, situationist, text | |
| Finnegan's Wake Thunder Words | |
 created 3/4/09 | Performance by the voice of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ... 'Thunder Words' ... Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnsk awntoohoohoordenenthurnuk |
| agency, intervention, language, media art, sound, video | |
| Swallow Hard | |
 created 3/4/09 | Collaborative work by Susan Buret and myself featuring the abstraction of abstraction and ribald limericks |
| collaboration, dialogue, DIY, feminism, installation, language, recycling, remix | |
| Sirens at the Court of the Lady | |
 created 3/4/09 | Collaborative-work began with Radio Phone's Nevio, from ALTRASCENA...the other voices are, poet / performer Rosaria Lo Russo, Sara Davidovics, Chiara Daino Brandi and Irene, the singer / actress Raffaella Benetti Click here for gif http://sirensatcourt.blogspot.com/ |
| agency, audiovisual, collaboration, cyberculture, dialogue, interplay, language, sound | |
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