30 minute performance, metallic paint, concrete, cardboard, tape, lithograph, photocopies, (dimensions variable)

Mothers’ Tongue brings together artists working with sound in an improvised performance using various electronic instruments, and equipment to amplify a collection of field recordings, voices, and ambient sounds. Libita shared a selection of samples and colour scores with collaborators who interpreted and played the audio live with drum pads, synths and audio software. The samples came from a two day workshop open to the public, exploring a shifting sense of place and home through sound and words. Transforming Libita’s art studio into a recording studio and communal space. Mothers’ Tongue is a remix of research becoming a collective live body.

Mothers’ Tongue was presented in a dual exhibition; What Knot Not with Celina Portella, which concluded a three month residency at the Bagfactory, supported by the Triangle Network.

Performers: Chris Boyd, Setlamorago Mashilo, Joao Renato Orecchia Zuniga
Image credit: Solomon Moremong