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Ben Vida, Speech Act 6<\/i>, 2016, ink and gesso on panel, 47.5″ x 58.5″<\/p><\/div>\n

Ben Vida\u2019s recent exhibition at Lisa Cooley Gallery, \u201c[Smile on.] \u2026 [Pause.] \u2026 [Smile off.]<\/a>,\u201d included a series of what the author calls Speech Acts, inspired by concrete poetry. Intended to be recited in a\u00a0duo vocal performance, the speech acts capture all the pauses, false starts, stammers, and disfluencies of conversation: all the spoken detritus usually omitted in transcripts. Inspired by Beckett and other dramatists who foreground the emptiness of speech patterns, Vida and a partner read\u00a0each piece aloud at the gallery. \u201cAurally it\u2019s kind of a short distance from \u2018eh, itz tah\u2019 to \u2018ah, um oh\u2019 to \u2018well, okay so,\u2019 \u201d he told the\u00a0Creators Project<\/a>, \u201cbut within this distance the function of the language changes and so the compositional logic begins to change as well. It becomes a completely different engagement in terms of what is being communicated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Click any of the images to enlarge them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Speech Act 1<\/i>, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.<\/p><\/div>

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Speech Act 13<\/i>, 2016, ink and gesso on panel, 47.5″ x 58.5″.<\/p><\/div>

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Speech Act 16<\/i>, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.<\/p><\/div>

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Speech Act 5<\/i>, 2016, Ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.<\/p><\/div>

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Speech Act 8<\/i>, 2016, ink on rag paper, 31″ x 28″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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