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Foreign Language for Beginners
Irina Gheorghe
Free, No booking required
Part of The Landis Museum, Glasgow
Billiard Room, The Pearce Institute
Friday, 20 April 2018
Foreign Language for Beginners is a developing performance work by Irina Gheorghe, which explores the dynamics and history of an improbable first contact by way of speech, sound and movement. It is a conversation with the world outside the word, by way of word, inside a room. The performance starts with simple messages that were composed and gathered by the SETI Institute in order to be sent into outer space, which are directed at the audience in the second person. However, as the performance progresses, the mode of address, the form the language takes, and the situations described begin to get a little weirder…
Irina Gheorghe
1981, Romania. Based in Berlin and Dublin
Irina’s performances include Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Foreign Language for Beginners, Research Pavilion at the Venice
Biennale, rhiz (Vienna), Atelier 35 (Bucharest) and tete (Berlin); and The Way to Go, eXplore dance Festival, WASP (Bucharest). She has participated in group shows such as Heroism Rises in a Warehouse, Salonul de Proiecte (Bucharest); The Heart Is Deceitful Above all Things, (HOME Manchester); and Parasite and Mimicry, (CAC Vilnius). She also works as part of the artist duo, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research. BMR’s solo shows include Alien Passions, Skolska 28 (Prague); End Pit, DEPO (Istanbul); and The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Galeria Posibilă (Bucharest).
