Ventriloquism for dummies: art gallery explores dislocated voices
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Artist Simon Zoric with … Simon.Credit:Simon Schluter
“Ventriloquy has a prehistory that goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years,” he says, citing the Ancient Greek practice of gastromancy, which said stomach noises were messages from the dead. “Really what it’s about is the dislocation of the voice from the so-called speaking subject.”
It’s there when, say, your boss toes the company line, or when someone begins to sound like their new partner. And we’re all familiar with the “mouthpiece” metaphor in politics: think Trump’s puppet to Putin’s master, or George W. Bush’s to Dick Cheney’s.
“So much of what we hear our politicians say, or other people say, doesn’t really sound like the voice of a speaking subject but rather something speaking through them [as a proxy],” says Stern.
Danielle Freakley’s work Your Second Hand is a pop-up shop with pre-loved clothes for sale; the price is that you’ll “unconsciously inherit certain thoughts and behaviours from its previous owner”.
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