Meditations, Volume 3: Words as Sculpture, Their Shapes as Sound

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Meditations, Volume 3: Words as Sculpture, Their Shapes as Sound, Dir. Chloë Lum Yannick Desranleau, image of a woman against an orange background surrounded with a foil sculpture around her.

In Words as Sculpture, Their Shapes as Sound, the protagonist performed by soprano Emili Losier, compares the styles of Sylvia Plath, whose use of onomatopoeia seemingly creates its own soundtrack on the page, to that of Clarice Lispector, whose rich descriptions of object, place, and material, seem to burst off the page as actual physical structures. Citing both of these methodologies as key to her own artistic production, she laments the lack of language to describe text that seems to have material dimension.

2020
Canada
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Quirion, Jean-Michel, "La douleur chantée et dansée de Chloë Lum et Yannick Desranleau", Vies des arts, no 259, été 2022

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Materiality, text, language, body, opera, objects,