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It Would Get a Terrific Laugh


Sound sculpture
in collab. with Michael Fesca
2 chanels, loop, 4 mins, 2014

Voice: Daniel Brunet, Sound engineering: Manfred Miersch, Installation view: Le Magasin FNAC, Grenoble, Foto: courtesy of Liam Gillick
The work slows down some lines of the Ernst Lubitsch`s famous rehearsal scene of a play satirizing the Nazis out of his comedy „To be or not to be“ (1942). Moreover, the voice of a contemporary actor slowing down the same scene overlaps the original audio.  
Slowed down speech represents a special challenge for the human body and can cause unforeseen difficulties to both speakers and listeners alike. In the process, a semantic internal structure comes to the fore: some jokes cannot bear slowness.


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