Chinasa Vivian Ezugha | Tongues

Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Tongues, 2021
in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma Ezugha
Audio performance, 10 minutes
Edited by Martyna Poznanska

This first practice-as-research project by CCA Research Associate  Chinasa Vivian Ezugha seeks to examine the question: ‘What kind of  documentation can be derived from glossolalic speech and its  presentation?’ It does so through the development and creation of an  audio performance, realised in collaboration with the artists' sisters  recorded in everyday mundane spaces such as the kitchen or bedroom. This  project examines the practice of glossolalia within family  relationships and the everyday, and the way in which spoken glossolalia  can  be used to further discussions around our relationship to the voice as a  form of connection to our bodies and others.

This is the first iteration of this research project, exploring  glossolalia and the differences in speech and sound between the  diasporic Nigerians in the UK and the Pentecostal Nigerians across Nigeria.

Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/tongues
And visit the artist's websites at: vcezugha.wixsite.com | ezugha.tumblr.com  

This project was supported by:

CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council England
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council