Jude Browning & Emmie McLuskey this voice is not my own

Bringing together a collection of research materials Jude Browning and Emmie McLuskey will use the format of a staged dialogue to question how the authoritative voice may find shape. They will consider the role of instruction and translation in relation to gesture and speech. Asking the following questions to frame the research:
How do dominant voices and modes of expression find shape?
How does scale alter the tone of the address?
Who is the authoritative voice and under what terms?
What is voluntary and involuntary?

They will show and discuss work from Samuel Beckett, Francois Delsarte, Karen Finlay, Vilém Flusser, Donna Haraway, Rudolf Laban, Audre Lorde, Meredith Monk, British Political Party Broadcasts, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot (1977), Keith Floyd Floyd on Fish (1984), NASA’s Instagram feed and Quintilian’s Institutes of oratory.

Jude Browning is an artist and writer based in Glasgow whose recent work explores recitation and staged presentation. Her research draws on speech and body language coaching, melodramatic theatricality and instructive language. Through writing and performance she considers what is implicated in the role of public speaking. Recent performances and public events include Figure 4 at Baltic Project Space (curated by Kati Kärki, with Kirsty Hendry, Jake Watts and Magda Buczek), Oral Rinse at Waterloo Action Centre, Squeezer Collective, SAR 2016 conference Writing as Practice, practice as writing and Cally Spooner’s Study Week at Wysing Arts Centre. She has organised national events centered around the dissemination of writing as artistic practice at The Whitechapel Gallery, X Marks the Böxship and in collaboration with Paperwork Magazine.

Emmie McLuskey is an artist based in Glasgow. She works with other artists to produce collaborative work, this has previously taken the form of publications, events, objects, conversations and exhibitions. Her concerns lie with people, their contexts and the negotiation of our shifting identities in relation to our social, historical and political contexts. Emmie regularly collaborates with Scottish choreographer Janice Parker on issues that include authorship, the archive and access. In 2016 she co-founded uh books with British typographer Will Holder.