Break Your Voice
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Break Your Voice is a hand-bound letterpress book that explores the relationship of gender-non-binaries and voice through the lens of ventriloquism. This book was created with the generous support of a Space Residency, a Pickwick Independent Press Fellowship, and an Open Windows Residency (sponsored by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant)
Installation 2020, Another Year in the Republic curated by Jan Dickey.
Break Your Voice Off explores the relationship of gender-non-binaries and voice through the lens of ventriloquism. Each is created from recombined pages of my 2019 artist book Break Your Voice. If the book was like a music album, each of these works is like a remixed hook or melody that got stuck in my head. They blend three voices: decontextualized handwritten lists, quotes from a monograph on ventriloquism, and typeset original text. The original text is printed on sticky notes that follow a color code which helps contextualize the words:
Orange: Actions / Instructions
Green: anything that can be material or listed
Blue: quotes or references to external media which was loud in the ear.