Les Brigittines

Get talking! In Voicing Pieces, Begüm Erciyas explores the political and poetic power of the act of speaking. In the intimacy of a soundproof booth, we discover a script whose words have to be deciphered out loud. Alone with the text, we become the audience of our own performance. The simple act of read while hearing yourself speak is turned into a theatrical and choreographic experience. Our voices become detached from our bodies. It becomes a tool of action, a surprise, a show. As if endowed with autonomous will, it plays with us as much as we play with it. Don’t our voices always seem strange and inauthentic to us? Voicing Pieces invites us to discover and accept the stranger in us. A liberating experience.