Irena Tomažin

The Taste of Silence Always Resonates

Photo: Nada Žgank

Emanat, Cankarjev dom and Maska Ljubljana

Première 7. 12. 2012 Duša Počkaj Hall, Cankarjev dom

Running time 55 minutes without an interval.

Author of Concept and Performer Irena Tomažin
Dramaturg Barbara Korun
Sound Designer Aldo Ivančič
Lighting Designer Igor Remeta

Through the medium of voice, the author of this performance tackles the tradition and status of voice as a medium of oral history from generation to generation. The voices that we use for speaking are the melodies of past speakers and their stories; in a way, we belong more to the past and to its seemingly faded legacy than to the present, which is supposed to be "here and now”. Perhaps the faded nature of legacy merely expresses its quiet, inconspicuous, and constant presence. The present, on the other hand, inscribes into our bodies different voices that come out of its omnipresent sounds. With them we draw our stories that will be our oral history for the future. The paradoxical time loop is captured in the duration of the voice within a single exhale.