00:00:10,560 A woman speaks in Indonesian

00:00:24,380 Another woman responds back to her

00:00:28,360 By repeating only the vowels of what the previous woman said

00:00:58,400 This process continues to more people that are gathered together in a circle at Leeszaal

00:01:55,260 A woman once told me

00:02:00,620 That when she was a child

00:02:04,980 She would speak to her mother in Dutch and her mother would reply back to her in Surinamese

00:02:14,700 Their communication would go on like that

00:02:18,940 The child was like a channel

00:02:22,720 Like also her mother. The one would refuse to talk in one common language to the other.

00:02:32,620 But this process of translation happening inside their head...

00:02:40,100 is mediating and filtrating their speech through each others bodies

00:03:08,240 In ancient medical and anatomical theory women have two mouths, the upper and the lower, connected through neck

00:03:29,720 The lips of both these mouths guarded a hollow cavity and they had to remain closed

00:03:38,520 Having two mouths that speak simultaneously is confusing and embarrassing and this creates cacophony

00:03:49,320 Females were expressing something directly when it should have been said indirectly

00:04:54,900 In the end of this process this group of people sang together all the vowels they had transcribed

00:05:09,460 With a small delay of synchronization they tried to sing at the same time

00:05:37,580 In Ancient Greece there was a high-pitch utterance of women , called ololyga...

00:05:47,560 which was a ritual practice dedicated to important events in life...

00:05:55,020 such as like the birth of a child or the death of a person...

00:06:00,700 and this was considered a pollution for civic space

00:06:33,460 If expressed in public they would create chaos and provoke madness

00:07:07,460 Here you listen Angela Davis speak in Occupy Wall Street

00:07:32,400 People here act like a human microphone. They repeat all together what Angela Davis says...

00:07:42,880 in order she could be heard more far away in the square...

00:07:53,260 in order to amplify her voice, because amplification devices were not permitted

00:08:01,820 Vowels allow us to occupy space

00:08:03,820 Vowels vibrate us

00:08:05,820 Vowels is the common space between our languages

00:08:06,680 A similar example with Judith Butler speaking in Occupy Wall Street Vowels is the common space between our languages

00:08:07,820 Vowels make us louder and bigger A similar example with Judith Butler speaking in Occupy Wall Street

00:08:09,160 Vowels make us louder and bigger