Marcelline Delbecq / ext 17 / June 2006
Paris-based artist Marcelline Delbecq has
gradually moved away from photography to focus on the cinematic
potential of writing. She uses both narrative and narrator
(the voice) to create a singular world where a writing turned
into sound generates a series of mental images which move
back and forth between description and pure fiction. Her own
voice — which she often uses in sound installations,
publications and readings — acts like a voice-over for
various ‘invisible cinema’ projects where words,
transformed into visions, call the whole act of beholding
into question.
For ext. 17, Marcelline Delbecq presents part of her on-going
Juke-box Project (started in 2003), featuring spoken covers
of songs she has never heard. Solo, Over, Swim and There (originally
sung under different titles by Deep Purple, James Brown, Elvis
Presley and Frank Sinatra) will be successively played through
ext. 17, turning the phone device into a live, unexpected
and virtual rock’n roll compilation.
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