In Voicing Pieces, Begüm Erciyas explores the political and poetic power of the voice and the act of speaking. In the seclusion of a soundproof hut, you are given a simple script and become a spectator to your own voice. The act of simultaneously speaking and listening leads to a theatrical and choreographic experience that is created afresh with every participant. The voice is dissociated from the body. It becomes a place for action, a surprise, a performance.
Is your own voice not always misleading and uncomfortable? Rather than finding yourself again in the stranger, Voicing Pieces invites you to discover and embrace the stranger in yourself. A liberating experience.
“A long journey, although it doesn’t last more than half an hour, which ultimately brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And never again will it sound like it did before. Magical.” - De Morgen