Mother Tongue/ 2018

Documentation from the performance lecture Mors Tunge/Mother Tongue by Kjersti Sundland and Ole Christian Ellestad.
KMD, Auditorium Knut Knaus, January 2018.
Documentation from the performance lecture Mors Tunge/Mother Tongue by Kjersti Sundland and Ole Christian Ellestad.
KMD, Auditorium Knut Knaus, January 2018.

Performed together with Ole Christian Ellestad as part of a series of presentations from the ongoing research from the research project Synsmaskinen led by Frans Jacobi. The event was presenting current research from the group Crisis of Perception. The lecture started with an audio excerpt from lecture held by Ronald D Laing on transpersonal psychology in 1982 as a St Görans Lecture in Stockholm. The lecture was performed in Norwegian.

Excerpt from script:

«..now it is the night that is calling, the space for action is dark, we navigate the square by acoustics and regard the voices as a liturgy of exception. It is the privilege of the outlaw to rest for a night with friends without causing their exile. Or as has also been said – being exiled – escaping along the coast into high seas and returning at another time, through a wall kept cracked..»