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Communication breakdown is the focus of this
new national touring exhibition, which opens at the Sainsbury Centre
for Visual Arts.
Contemporary international film, installation,
video and sculpture, as well as text-based work and photography,
are used to explore different manifestations and consequences of
communication breakdown, be it vocal, linguistic, technological,
cultural or political.
Central to the exhibition is a recently re-discovered film by Samuel
Beckett and the French filmaker Marin Karmitz.
Comedie, made in 1966, speeds up Beckett's play of the same
name to the point of near indecipherability.
The absurdity and prevalence of communication breakdown also characterises
much of the work of Bruce Nauman.
Francesca Woodman : Self-portrait talking to
Vince. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman and the Marian Goodman
Gallery, New York. |
A number of his works will be shown including two
films from 1969, Lip Sync and Gauze and his 1985 World Peace
- Day Two (Brooke's Lips) seen here in the UK for the first
time.
The frustration caused by the inability to communicate
is conveyed in a self-portrait by Francesca Woodman, the
American photographer who committed suicide aged 22.
In it, glass emanates from her mouth instead of words.
A powerful exhibition, Incommunicado is a must-see experience.
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