HANNE LIPPARD (NO)
Residency period: May-July 2023
At La Becque, Lippard took the opportunity to tie together existing material pertaining to her interdisciplinary project Speaker, while also developing a more immediate, localised and dialogue-based relation to sound production. Speaker finds its starting point in the duality of the word “speaker” itself: a human attribute as well as the function of a technical device which both can be seen as extensions of the self. The speaker, as a technical device, represents and contains the artist’s work in her physical absence. At the same time, she is the speaker and when she performs, the presence of the voice becomes the ‘device’ with which she conveys the content both the rhythm and its form.
The duality of the word is also a duality of bodies – which leads Lippard to investigate in a broader manner how natural human skills and abilities can be extended through the use of technology and how these extensions of the self challenge our notion of identity, a central topic in the period defined as the “Anthropocene”.
Hanne Lippard is a Berlin-based Norwegian artist who works with language, identity, speech and technology. Her education in graphic design informs how language can be visually powerful: her texts are visual, rhythmic and performative rather than purely informative and her work is conveyed through a variety of disciplines, which include short films, sound pieces, installations and performance. In her work, she positions herself in the role of a narrator, with works conveyed mostly through performance and sound-installations.
Hanne Lippard, photo Neven Allgeier