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A Sense of Belonging

Audio Work

 

stefanos pavlakis_ A SENSE OF BELONGING still 3

 

Medium
Sound

Duration
05 : 15 min. (loop)
Trailer: 01 : 46 min.

Date
2004

During 2004 – 2008 I produced a series of works in which I reveal  the unsettling nature of language acquisition. Relocation, followed by the slow process of learning a new language, appeared to me as a precept for cultural estrangement.

For A Sense of Belonging I hired a professional English teacher to improve my accent. The lesson consists of one single instruction: to repeatedly pronounce the phrase a sense of belonging and be corrected in articulation. The session deliberately dissolves into the absurd: learning becomes a process of destabilisation.