Excavating hidden and forgotten pasts with sound

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that Césaire’s intention “was not so much to reveal the silence of these colonised people but to shatter their wall-to-wall description , leaving new space to be filled by people who can speak for themselves at last”.In parallel with the experience of the colonised, sound can also be an ally for other kinds of oppressed people whose pasts have been distorted, repressed, erased or silenced.“sound provides direct entry to a lost or forgotten experience”.

Sound, I discovered, offered me exciting possibilities to have the past intervene in the present, allowing me to create a dialogue between both timeframes. It also ultimately enabled me to re-contextualise personal and shared experience by using palimpsest-style inscriptions of the present moment on past moments.

Still from Don Duncan’s performance, All That is Solid Melts into Air: Gays, Unionists and the Irish language.

 

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