Ego as Echo II

Makiko Yamamoto (b. Japan) is based in Melbourne, Australia, where she has been developing her sonic and spatial practice over the past 15 years. She uses a wide range of formats – live performance, private recordings, radio broadcasts, video and sound-based installation. Yamamoto’s practice engages a theoretical approach, repositioning fundamental materials such as the voice, the body and language as conveyers of meaning. Employing translation, misunderstanding and awkwardness as critical tools, Yamamoto seeks to expose the vulnerabilities of social and ideological codes underlying everyday verbal communication: speech, text and language.

Martina Copley is an artist and writer whose practice explores the poetics of compositional processes. She has worked with Sutton Projects, Propane, Bus Projects, RMIT Project Space, SEVENTH, West Space, City and Docklands Libraries, Melbourne Festival, and Liquid Architecture. She has co-produced two artist books and her writing (often with live readings) has been published by the Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal, no more poetry, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and Bloomsbury Academic. Martina is Chair Artistic Director at Blindside and lectures in contemporary art and writing at RMIT University, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and La Trobe College of Art & Design.

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