In the exhibition Paralingual Score, the audience is invited into an investigative space where the invisible dimensions of language emerge. The installation presents a paralinguistic polyphony, composed of the material that escapes the mouth when the tongue the tongue ties knots.
A choir of eight voices performs a graphic score that spreads across the walls of Bladr in a cyclical composition. The score is based on an interview Mosconi conducted with a woman named Sara in Linz, Austria in January 2024. Sara, like the artist, is multilingual and finds that her mother tongue has gradually faded. The conversation is centred around navigating multiple languages, fluid cultural identities and the importance of a mother tongue. The interview is one of many, and the score was created using the Paralinguistic Index - a new and playful communication system consisting of 32 symbols, each of which represents a paralinguistic phenomenon in our language. Mosconi uses the symbols to make transcriptions, which she considers a kind of graphic score.
The exhibition will be further activated by Italian soprano Felicita Brusoni, who will interpret the score in the space for the opening.
The Paralinguistic Index is published as a freely accessible digital font. The font can be downloaded here: https://claramosconi.com/Paralingual-Index-no-1
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