SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2022, 10 PM
farO presents SOUNDS GOOD
A video lecture on language feel and form, meaning and meaninglessness
by Peter Rose, co-directed by Jessie Lewis
The Pressures of the Text
analog video transferred to digital, color, sound, 17', 1983
A logical deconstruction of the duck's speech
and the encoding of a Nokia 6150 user manual
by Cátia Serrão
A Fala do Pato
powerpoint animation, color, sound, 5'7'', 2010
(alternate cut)
Book
offset print, 92 pp, 17 × 12 cm, 2007/2022
edition of 250, issued by farO
A reading on nothing
by Clark Coolidge
Nothing I-XIII, 1968
SOUNDS GOOD
A person, when speaking, walks, as a pig walks, as a duck walks, as a hound walks, and so on…
This can be thought of as a short form of travelling, which comes from the Greek word quel "to move”, often used with the word quela (pronounced qua! ).
Another way of saying this is that there is a language to be heard which is no word of any kind. It is understood that things, like a candle or a sword, are sound-made. Whereof it is understood that sound is made by sound itself, which in itself is no-thing at all of an origin.
The object of nothingness, requires a speech of continuum airy words. If we cannot speak we must remain quiet, and thus is born the name of a creature, or a thing, given to the object of silence, just as the name of a house when man made it visible.
One can use language to explore meaning and meaninglessness. Linguistic and ideographic symbols can, in practice, be combined into a broad set of dialects. They are in fact a "sign language”. Its function and purpose is not in the point of impact but in the language itself, which can be measured again and again, with the result that one can think in terms of how the sign has evolved to allow us to interpret and express.
This sort of linguistic analysis is part of “the dialect", at the heart of the art we’re making of words. It is usually understood by the people who have the means to listen to it. The problem is that this language doesn't have a grammar (an automatic set of rules that we can learn by doing things). The qua is a one-liner about the nature of our own reality, in other words, QUAQUA=LL, which is short for "novel".
SOUNDS GOOD
But It Says Nothing (Clark Coolidge, 2000); scripts of Duck's Speech (Cátia Serrão, 2010) and The Pressures of the Text (Peter Rose, 1983); excerpts from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921) and Bouvard e Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert, 1881).
*We thank the artists for their contribution to this session*
This session had the technical support of Borja Caro and João Simões and photo coverage by Pedro Alfacinha.
The display shelf for Cátia Serrão’s edition was made by Gonçalo Barreiros.
This week's programme includes ideograms designed by Cátia Serrão and Jessie Lewis, and was printed by António Rijo de Carvalho.
At the entrance, on display as always, the SLANT STEP.
Produced with the support of Fundo de Fomento Cultural Garantir Cultura–Compete 2020, República Portuguesa–Ministério da Cultura.
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Muito bom!
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