[oberlist] Quote—Unquote platform on (public) speech launches online June 26th

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A podcast and an open call for video works kick off this interdisciplinary
platform, curated by Infinite Conversation
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*Quote—Unquote platform on (public) speech launches online June 26th*
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Dear Reader,

When was the last time you were offered the microphone? Who was your
audience and what did you say? Are your words still floating in the
airwaves? Do you run away from the sound of your voice?

A popular saying claims that the most common fear among people is public
speaking. It’s followed, on the second place, by death. Moreover, the last
few years have had the eyes of the art world turn to the mouths of its
interlocutors, in a discursive turn of the performative, completing a
rotation started in the '60s.

In the current social media landscape, where self-expression becomes a
perpetual talent show, self-development mantras grant daily workplace
affirmations and information is bent in the shape of post-truth,
Quote—Unquote platform proposes a dialogic turn and rhizomatic formats
through artistic practice and its intersection with other fields of
activity. We follow and provoke the juxtaposition of reading groups, radio
shows, performances and performative scripts in order to create new
productions and an understanding of *the event* in itself as a process of
transformation and co-creation, in which we invite you to take part.

Through all this, we intend to surface out your curiosity and desire to
approach it from multiple perspectives and voices. Quote—Unquote is a
long-term interdisciplinary platform on (public) speech initiated by *Infinite
Conversation*, an independent curatorial unit founded in Bucharest by Dan
Angelescu, Irina Radu and Cristina Vasilescu.

*WHAT'S ON SCHEDULE*

Initially conceived as a suite of disparate events, the pandemic pushed us
to deconstruct and reconstruct the first series of contributions online,
with an extension in a few physical sites, as a sequence of collaborative
intersections which investigate the relationship of public speaking with
the self, the community and authority, exploring new possibilities of
decodification and intervention.

We start on June 26th with a reflexive podcast by *Lidija Burčak*,
Swiss-Croatian visual anthropologist, writer and documentary filmmaker
whose diary reading practice has been successfully touring in venues
throughout Switzerland. The Quote—Unquote Podcast will continue with
several episodes in July and August, existing as a broadcast space for
sound works, spoken word practice, readings, teachings and aural
miscellanea.

The following weeks will include contributions by artists and
researchers *Jasmina
Al-Qaisi, Anna Barham, Vlad Brăteanu, Anca Bucur & Sergiu Nisioi, Maia
Conran, Harun Morrison, mother tongues* and *Elena Trifan*. Using language,
voice, translation and other speech-related elements, they will explore and
speculate on diverse topics: hypnosis, Gertrude Stein, the 5G technology
and monkey puzzle trees all make an appearance, in the podcast and through
other surprise formats.

*VIDEO STATION OPEN CALL*

Led by a need to explore public speaking and discursivity through moving
image practice, Video Station is a Quote—Unquote project that acts as a
production laboratory and video library. In the current social climate, the
audiovisual becomes our hypermediated instrument of understanding the world
and its intricate networks.

We are launching an open call that will select *3 video work proposals*,
awarding each of them *a production grant and an artist fee*, while also
exhibiting the resulting works online. Our focus lies on proposals that
engage with the topics, the languages and the politics of public speaking,
within a transdisciplinary collaborative approach. Filmmakers, artists,
journalists and all types of explorers and educators are welcome to apply.
The deadline for the open call is July 19th. All the details regarding
eligibility and application process are available on our website,
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The works will be presented on the Video Station section of the
Quote—Unquote website, alongside a curated selection of works by
established international artists such as *Liz Magic Laser, Jenny Brady *and*
Clarissa Thieme*, also to be published on our website throughout the summer
and fall of 2020.


*Quote—Unquote* is co-funded by the *Administration of the National
Cultural Fund* and *British Council Romania*
Partner: *Human Language Technologies Research Center*
*Quote—Unquote: Video Station* is co-funded by the *Administration of the
National Cultural Fund*

Special thanks for their initial support:
*Czech Centre Bucharest, National Dance Center Bucharest (CNDB), Salonul de
proiecte, SUPRAINFINIT Gallery*

*The project does not necessarily represent the position of the
Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for
the content of the project, nor for the manner in which the results of the
project might be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the
beneficiary of the grant.*
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