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
00:02:04,980 She would speak to her mother in Dutch and her mother would reply back to her in Surinamese
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
00:08:05,820 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
