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Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA
The Raised Faculty Building is both a place of study on the upper floors and a place of passage on the ground floor, walked through by its users and punctuated by pillars that uphold the whole structure and allow free movement.
This ephemeral 48-hour installation will appear and then disappear, without leaving a trace, where ordinary utterances commenting on the location itself and its various users dialogue with the architectural landscape. The posters on the pillars, with extracts of sentences (in French and English, after approximative translation by AI), uttered/scattered across and within the site, provide their own commentary.
Combining art and linguistics, poetry and politics, the installation questions the ability of language to sculpt space, and signpost reality in the age of automatic translation.
The approach of the artists consists in making spontaneous oral speech visible in public spaces. The so-called «ordinary» speech, transposed to places where its inscription can astonish, evinces the links between language and the reality to which it refers. Speach is decontextualized from its interactions in order to proceed to a new analysis where the plastic component prevails over the semantic one. Through this ephemeral visualization of the oral language, the artists seek to construct new modes of reception and interpretation of messages in public space, at the antipodes of voluntary degradations (tags) or explicitly political messages.
Hoëltzener & Renduli? : Joint research-creation project - visual art, « ordinary » speech and urban heritage (www.du-coup.art). For two years, through the blending of our individual practices, they have been developing a joint research project in art and linguistics, as members of the Ligerian Laboratory of Linguistics at Orleans University.
Sébastien Hoëltzener (www.sebastienhoeltzener.com), artist sculptor
At the heart of his concerns is the investigation of different locations, from which emerge his creations designed for and by those specific locations. His installations are adaptations of what is already there, in order to show it under a new light.
Nina Renduli? (www.je-me-dis.com), artist photographer, linguist, designs installations where the photographic image dialogues with various means of speech representation (audio-visual recordings, transcriptions, micro-publishing…) in order to question the diversity of forms representing reality and their connections.
