Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Tongues, 2021
in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma Ezugha
Audio performance, 10 minutes
Edited by Martyna Poznanska
This first practice-as-research project by CCA Research Associate Chinasa Vivian Ezugha seeks to examine the question: ‘What kind of documentation can be derived from glossolalic speech and its presentation?’ It does so through the development and creation of an audio performance, realised in collaboration with the artists' sisters recorded in everyday mundane spaces such as the kitchen or bedroom. This project examines the practice of glossolalia within family relationships and the everyday, and the way in which spoken glossolalia can be used to further discussions around our relationship to the voice as a form of connection to our bodies and others.
This is the first iteration of this research project, exploring glossolalia and the differences in speech and sound between the diasporic Nigerians in the UK and the Pentecostal Nigerians across Nigeria.
Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/tongues
And visit the artist's websites at: vcezugha.wixsite.com | ezugha.tumblr.com
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council England
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
