Morphologies : Language is made to be obeyed not believed

13 Sep 2014

Overview

Vladimir Tomić, 'Unfinished Journeys' Alex Cecchetti, 'Theory of Rising' In-conversation with Vladimir Tomić and Alex Cecchetti Screenings of works by Vladimir Tomić and Alex Cecchetti, which in different ways show the relationship between power and language, how language can be used as a tool of manipulation and how it in turn can be manipulated. Vladimir Tomić’s Unfinished Journeys is a tale in which poetic imagery and magnificent Greenlandic scenery meet a socio-political perspective with documentary shots of everyday life in Greenland. The film follows Niels, who is half Danish and half Greenlandic, exploring his relation to his Greenlandic roots. Unfinished Journeys tells the story of lost language and lost identity. Alex Cecchetti’s Theory of Rising is a philosphical play with words. In this work Cecchetti gestalts the contradiction of language as he takes his audience on a journey in which we meet the truth of the voice, the fiction of language and the cave of the human. Cecchetti masters the manipulation of objects, ideas and language and makes the invisible visible as he ‘engages the viewer physically and intellectually, in a concrete experience where his work is perceived as a mental thing and the thought as a form’ (Yann Chateigné).