Lourenço Soares

Gramática - análise morfo-sintática

lecture-performance with video slide presentation (55' 4K vertical monitor); 15min; 2019-2020

Gramática examines the entanglements between grammar and ecology in looking at how the structure of language sets a specific view about our environment and relationship to nonhuman beings.

The work is performed by two readers. One reads a text in Portuguese describing the word classes, their definitions, function, and classification. The other reads in English a text that problematizes those concepts, moving around pronoun politics, subject-object dualism, or verb temporal limitations. The reading is made simultaneously or at times. The images on the screen follow the text like in a slide presentation — one slide for each word class (sometimes interrupted by advertisements).

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