A Voice in Three Mirrors is an improvisatory multisensory performance-installation previewing three new works by Lamin Fofana: History of the Voice, Corps Perdu, and Works in Metal. The performance offers a glimpse into Fofana’s ongoing sound work projects informed and inspired by seminal historical works by African diasporic writers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, Kamau Brathwaite, and Dionne Brand.
Works in Metal is part of an ongoing sound sculpture developed around the idea of melting MIDI and digital audio like liquid metal and shaping and forging something new. Corps Perdu is the first in a new trilogy of work continuing Fofana’s practice of transmuting text into sound, with the title of the piece springing from a 1948 book of poetry by Aimé Césaire and famously illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Corps Perdu observes a transitional moment in Césaire’s poetry when youthful zeal is weighted down with the elegiac introspection of time and maturity. What follows is a rendition of History of the Voice, a series of stretched-out voice fragments, field recordings, and debris concerning presence and environmental expression.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
