Ego as Echo II
Makiko Yamamoto
1 May–31 Jul 2020
Ego as Echo II forms part of Makiko Yamamoto’s ongoing exploration of speech as a social currency through performances, text, video and sound-based artworks. Extending from the artist’s recent considerations of the topics of ventriloquy and non-human communication, Ego as Echo II is a new video essay consisting of a series of audio and visual dialogues between the artist, her voice and her body. Using an array of rhetorical and conceptual strategies, Yamamoto explores the relations between embodiment, subjectivity, language and interpretation in practices of (self-)reproduction.




Referencing the multiple locations of the project, Satellite is a screen-based public art project that exists across multiple public locations in Melbourne (AUS), Sydney (AUS) and Auckland (NZ) simultaneously. The project examines notions of the public space, specifically the public square, and what it means for art to occupy these spaces and connect physically disparate audiences through a collective experience.
Ego as Echo II forms part of Makiko Yamamoto’s ongoing exploration of speech as a social currency through performances, text, video and sound-based artworks.
Exhibited on Blindside Satellite screens online + on public screens at Bunjil Place, Narre Warren; Harmony Square, Dandenong; Liverpool, Sydney and Beenleigh, Queensland.
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.
martinacopley.com
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