At first there was nothing. Not even something. Not even something hidden in the sand. There was no sand. There was no sound. Then there was the word. To be heard. Who spoke the first word, is uncertain. What the word was, is also not clear. How the voice sounded, nobody knows. Spoken words do not fossilise. Ducks do, but only their bones. Many remnants from the past go undiscovered. Only hard resistant material survives. The disappearance of a body can be rapid. Whatever brittleness there is about you, it will vanish with silt or sand when time passes. As one knows; the poor jellyfish is after all nothing but a fleeting soul, never given a solid afterlife.
Hanne Lippard is a British Norwegian artist based in Berlin who focuses on the production of language solely through the use of voice. In performances, installations, videos and audio pieces, she arranges, composes and combines her own wordplays with words by others. Fragments from everyday speech, sourced from various online platforms, are constantly reworked through the use of repetition, pronunciation and rhythm. Phrases and images associated with contemporary topics such as work, success, and lifestyles are evoked. By merging content and form and through a gentle rhyme, her vivid words begin to lose their prescribed value and modify to take on new meanings. With an almost hypnotic, cleansing approach, the vocal sequences sink into the listener’s mind and create a free-form, associative pattern of melodic, linguistic formulas.
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