In her artistic practice, HANNE LIPPARD uses her own voice to explore language as a medium as well as the production of language. In the form of performances, readings, audio installations and publications, she reflects on the conscious and subconscious automation of language. She translates text into sound and sound into text, with the subtle nuances between spoken and written word always being the focus of her attention. LIPPARD addresses the clichés of our everyday language and transforms them into melodic abstractions by means of syntactic repetition and distortion.

Specially created for the Kunstraum Buchberg, the starting point for this work is a historical keep with a blue spiral staircase protruding from its centre. Stepping onto it, one hears LIPPARD’s audio work entitled Locus (2011), in which she reflects on the relationship between two diametrically opposed bodies. The listener inevitably takes on the role of an outsider, which forces them to position themselves amidst the narrator and the ‘other’ he imagines. In addition, HANNE LIPPARD plays with the linear narrative structure. By suddenly starting to read the narrative backwards, she picks up on the figure of the spiral staircase, thereby disorienting the listener once again.

(Text by Marianne Dobner, in Yesterday, Today, Today, booklet on the exhibition, Kunstraum Buchberg 2018)

Installed in the context of the exhibition Yesterday, Today, Today, curated in cooperation with the mumok − Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Buchberger Sommer 2018 [Buchberg Summer 2018]

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