【Strip Club Slayer (2016) Watch online】
Speech Acts
Look
Ben Vida, Speech Act 6, 2016, ink and gesso on panel, 47.5″ x 58.5″
Ben Vida’s recent exhibition at Lisa Cooley Gallery, “[Smile on.] … [Pause.] … [Smile off.],” included a series of what the author calls Speech Acts, inspired by concrete poetry. Intended to be recited in a duo vocal performance, the speech acts capture all the pauses, false starts, stammers, and disfluencies of conversation: all the spoken detritus usually omitted in transcripts. Inspired by Beckett and other dramatists who foreground the emptiness of speech patterns, Vida and a partner read each piece aloud at the gallery. “Aurally it’s kind of a short distance from ‘eh, itz tah’ to ‘ah, um oh’ to ‘well, okay so,’ ” he told the Creators Project, “but within this distance the function of the language changes and so the compositional logic begins to change as well. It becomes a completely different engagement in terms of what is being communicated.”
Click any of the images to enlarge them.
Speech Act 1, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.
Speech Act 13, 2016, ink and gesso on panel, 47.5″ x 58.5″.
Speech Act 16, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.
Speech Act 5, 2016, Ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.
Speech Act 8, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.
Search
Categories
Latest Posts
Big-League Bluster
2025-06-26 05:51Already! (Or, Baudelaire at Sea) by Dan Piepenbring
2025-06-26 05:42A Week (or More) in Culture: Mimi Pond, Cartoonist by Mimi Pond
2025-06-26 05:10Good Taste by Sadie Stein
2025-06-26 05:06Best vacuum mop combo deal: Save $140 on the Tineco Floor One S5
2025-06-26 04:58Popular Posts
Shop Owala's Memorial Day Sale for 30% off tumblers
2025-06-26 06:09John Oliver gleefully weighs in on the Trump
2025-06-26 05:51The Morning News Roundup for March 27, 2014
2025-06-26 05:15Read an Excerpt from Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook
2025-06-26 04:32Gods of War
2025-06-26 04:20Featured Posts
Best robot vacuum deal: Eufy Omni C20 robot vacuum and mop at record
2025-06-26 05:48Dirty Parts by Kate Levin
2025-06-26 05:17Stupid Is by Sadie Stein
2025-06-26 05:01Frederick Seidel on Massimo Tamburini by Dan Piepenbring
2025-06-26 04:39The Best Gaming Concept Art of 2016
2025-06-26 03:59Popular Articles
How to Settle Down with Dystopia
2025-06-26 06:16Turn out the Lights and Watch Joško Marušić’s Fisheye
2025-06-26 04:14Paul Barbera’s Photos of Our Office
2025-06-26 04:05Contingent No More
2025-06-26 04:03Newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates.
Comments (837)
Expressing Aspiration Information Network
Best Sony headphones deal: Over $100 off Sony XM5 headphones
2025-06-26 06:14Unobstructed Information Network
The Morning News Roundup for April 8, 2014
2025-06-26 06:07Miracle Information Network
No Grownups Allowed by Sadie Stein
2025-06-26 05:01Information Information Network
Wanted for July: A Writer
2025-06-26 04:37Elegant Information Network
5 Ways to Access a Locked Windows Account
2025-06-26 03:49