Your Tale Sir Would Cure Deafness

Video HD, color, sound, 6min, 2021
Camera, video and sound editing, performed by: VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis)

Your Tale Sir Would Cure Deafness is a video-performance that deals with the deafening assertion of rights and the tension between private and public. In Shakespreare’s play The Tempest, Miranda utters “Your Tale Sir Would Cure Deafness” in response to Prospero’s story about the failed attempt on his life. Her powerful words express empathy for her father, but even more so they also indicate her own sense of shock. After all, this tale belongs to her as well, and her overstatement suggests just how overwhelmed the story makes her feel. In the video VASKOS use camp strategies and elements of disguise in order to appear as grotesque figures summing up the otherness and multiplicity of the claiming rights people. They re-use stage props from the operatic performance “Il diluvio universale” (Athens Festival 2020) in which the dramatic core was defined by the urgency of contemporary claims.

First presented at “Systems, Organisms, Symbiosis”, a group exhibition curated by Gigi Argyropoulou and Kostas Tzimoulis, with the support of Greek Ministry of Culture, HKW Berlin and Goethe Institut Athen, 25 June – 1 July and 23 Sept. – 22 Oct. 2021, in EIGHT critical institute for arts and politics, Athens, Greece.
Also presented at “The Right to Breath”, a group exhibition curated by Sozita Goudouna, 14 July – 8 Oct. 2021, Undercurrent, New York, USA.