Martina Copley

The crystal angle, 2014

<p><em>The crystal angle,</em> 2014. HD video from Super 8 film, colour, mute, foam, 01:16min. looped In the play between sound and language the stutter opens a percussive space of disarticulation, suspension and falter. A discontinuity that has its own fluency, the stutter is a part of everyday speech produced by changing intonation, rhythm and various other body opacities.Thought to be a mal-functioning of the self-hearing loop, a beginning and a beginning again, a circle within a circle, the stutter brings me to questions of private language and inner voice. When language itself stutters (it always does) it reflects back to the material. A cut-continuous parsing of the world of experience in which much is unheard, unsayable and variously baffled or reflected. <em>The crystal angle</em> was Emily Dickinson’s name for the nexus between the circumference world and the circuit world. [<em>I always read by listening to the text</em>, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2014. Curated by Martina Copley.]</p>

The crystal angle, 2014. HD video from Super 8 film, colour, mute, foam, 01:16min. looped In the play between sound and language the stutter opens a percussive space of disarticulation, suspension and falter. A discontinuity that has its own fluency, the stutter is a part of everyday speech produced by changing intonation, rhythm and various other body opacities.Thought to be a mal-functioning of the self-hearing loop, a beginning and a beginning again, a circle within a circle, the stutter brings me to questions of private language and inner voice. When language itself stutters (it always does) it reflects back to the material. A cut-continuous parsing of the world of experience in which much is unheard, unsayable and variously baffled or reflected. The crystal angle was Emily Dickinson’s name for the nexus between the circumference world and the circuit world. [I always read by listening to the text, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2014. Curated by Martina Copley.]

The crystal angle, 2014.HD video from Super 8 film, colour, mute, 01:16min. looped