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‘Retorica’
(work in the collection of Fine Arts Museum, Tai Pei, Taiwan) Peter Bogers 1992
The
installation is based on sound- and video-recordings (eye and mouth)
of a one-year old child, whose sounds can still, though only just,
be described as unstructured. The child is in the state of development
just before it starts to form words. The essentially chaotic sound-experiments
of the child, are grouped and ordered in the installation. The
monitor above alternately shows the child's eye and mouth. The other
monitor shows eye and mouth of the adult reacting to the sounds of
the child and imitating them. There is a constant interaction of visual contact
and interplay by means of sound.
The young child as a linguistic researcher
operates seemingly without a target, starting from zero. Rhetorica
examines the development of language in an early stage and puts the
childish uninhibited experiment next to a grown-up, well thought out,
reflection on this.
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