 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm one of the women of Warsaw who are having just a collective meditation on the state of things. It's very absurd because I'm speaking English in a French gallery and you're a Polish artist, but I want to thank Tristan from Gallery Us, who is hosting us here, and he allowed artists from Warsaw to be in a stateless situation because it's like quoting your famous Ampante Ribu from Paris, Monsieur Jari, it takes place in Poland, meaning nowhere. So welcome here and thank you for having us. We just want to share a little bit of what has been happening recently in Warsaw. As we know, we live in interesting times and things are happening everywhere right now. Thanks to HowlRound from Boston, everything is being transmitted directly and you can get online, you can get a live transmission and the address is howlround.com slash tv and also I understand we can check it later. So it's right now, whatever happens here will be transmitted directly to Boston, to the states, to Poland and I'm sure also to our Vladimir Putin. So cheers to everyone. Thank you and may we live in peace. Thank you. Because you're here and if I scream it doesn't go anywhere because if I speak it goes to everyone and it's directed to everyone, but if I scream it goes into a space, a very general space, but there's no one in the general space. Nobody wants to listen to me but the industry's working. But these people want to listen to me. We're sitting here right now and they have to sit here because they feel stupid leaving because there aren't enough people to actually leave because if they leave then everyone will notice so they're gonna have to stay here but if someone leaves then they're gonna feel very embarrassed and then they're gonna feel a little bit like you know rebels or something so we're staying here even though they're not listening that's really they don't really care but it's okay I wouldn't care to eat it I don't want to speak to you, you can cast other people to speak with you and then you have this small modification of the voice but you need to choose one sentence so everybody will agree to repeat it so what sentence do you want to say? you know something about your mother but when you're there okay so it's what we did last month so what did you do last month? I would say that's understandable by itself or it's for us you know to translate sounds changes sounds changes can you translate it? let's say Italian okay you can change the English and then we're gonna ask other people to translate it so you translated it to English? I'm gonna solidarity is a woman yeah solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman we need more languages because we need more languages because the more languages the better because it's like the whole Occupy left Wall Street thing the chain so how many languages do you know? did you understand this? can you say it in French? you don't speak French does anyone speak French here in Paris? ask in French I don't they all have different accents and they cannot understand each other they can't understand each other it comes from south and north a little bit different than we are let's make one phrase and repeat it from one mouth to another let's say solidarity is a woman I start and pass it this is human metaphor Occupy Wall Street music it was illegal to use anything yeah but they just said it out loud so I can't make sense I think everyone heard it I don't know I know if they hear it if you hear what we're saying yeah it's woman it's very difficult it's very difficult it's very difficult it's so very difficult I mean let's try let's try so you try that I'm going to tell you let's go think it's a woman it's a woman it's a woman it's answering things it's a woman it's a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a world stop it stop it who is she this is Maloney Maloney solidarity she she gave two grams of premium she was a dealer so what is our phrase who is the last person to speak I want can you pass us I don't hear you can you pass the phrase solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman yes can you pass us through solidarity is a woman I don't know but who is she solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman solidarity is a woman she is a woman she is a girl it was easy for me but I have a candle I swear to the old man that I will make you a good son-in-law. But the quiet network of young men is coming out. What do you wish for? Get out of here. Come with me. Ma'am, you are called before me. Oh, gravely, heavenly, on my green candle, open me, open me. Oh, oh, oh, what a flag. And the time has come. Oh, I have a thought. I will say that it is killing and colouring. Oh, you old woman, if you do it, Faha, I'm already flying. Where are you going? I see you. Come with me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I will give you a moustache. My dear, equally, you have a moustache. Around your grave. Queen, Bolesław, Władysław, Wyczysław, then Ubu, Wychodź, tobie, ojciec Ubu, za wiele piłem francuskiego wincha. Mianuję Cię dziś, Hrabią, Zandmierza. Panie się, ale przyjmij królu. Jeśli ładka, tę fujarkę. Fujarkę. Co Ty chcesz? Żebym ja, Moim, robił fujarką. Bymią, damią, wiesz, czytła. To jest całkiem mięto. Daj nogę. Na moją zieloną świetlę. Pięk! Zobie kiszki. O! Pięką prąbę. Tylko tutaj, do twili, tak. Ojciec Ubu. Jest. Co zrobiłeś sobie złego? Co zrobiłeś? No no, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu, ojciec Ubu. Ach. Moje sąsoperszy cijkerzy a u Massachusetts Cztofe 구나anging Oh, my friend, it's great that you dare to set a pants-dress plan. Let me say that he gave me a coin, a coin. The world's a day, you're a day, you're a day, you're a day, you're a day, you're a day, you're a day The bodies, those little bodies, like, inside being thrown out and everything It was just about, like, people being really, um, wild and untamed And I just hate this about people, it's just very disgusting And today I feel sick and I feel very disgusting Not because I'm sick, but I feel disgusting because the main aspect of my being Is kind of brought down to my body and I hate this, this is horrible I think as human beings we should really kind of be higher than our bodies We should have intellect, we should have ideas, we should have culture We should have civilization, you know, we should have, like, we should be bigger than everything else, you know We should really kind of conquer nature, we should conquer our own nature We shouldn't even think about nature, you know, nature is really dull, nature is really nothing Nature's horrible, who cares about nature, nature's disgusting, this is disgusting I hate the fact that I'm here and disgusting, the bodies here and it's disgusting I hate myself, it's disgusting, I'm just wetting right now and it's disgusting And I smell myself and it's disgusting, disgusting And actually I have saliva in my mouth right now because I'm talking so fast and it's really disgusting and right now I'm really hot and it's disgusting. I feel heat and it's disgusting. I feel my fingers right now, it's really disgusting. I see these people outside, they're really cold and I think it's really disgusting. They have to think about things like cold and their bodies and stuff like that and they're gonna go and have dinner in a moment and they're gonna like sloth all this stuff into their mouth and then they're gonna swallow and it's gonna go through all their intestine and then they're gonna, it's gonna go into like through their ass and you're gonna shit it out and it's all really disgusting. And to imagine that all this stuff for a moment is part of their body and it's so disgusting but their body's also disgusting. So the disgustingness of the food, it meant the disgustingness of their body and their organs and it's all just really disgusting and it's an origin of disgust and it's just all disgusting and we're all disgusting. We're all here and we're looking at each other and we're really disgusting and we're sniffing each other and we're like sitting next to each other probably like touching each other and it's really disgusting. We're all here and we have to share the space because we're fucked because we have to stay here and it's really disgusting. Travail, I must be strong to support my friend because it's my first day in Paris. I made myself a flannery. I want to be a flannery for a while. Of course there is a strong reference of a woman walking on the street and the times of bull there and the prostitutes can walk freely without pain. So we are on Pigalle and I came from Pigalle to Hotel de Ville and I was haunted by a voice a calling it was a very beautiful voice very strong voice and very much amplified it was coming from the big square you can hear the resonance it was very strong and I started walking to the world's direction and discovered a Syrian singer she was singing like Nakhmedou Nakhmedou the last stop of the flannery is a shopping mall so I came to the shopping mall it's a very natural consequence of walking in the city isn't it? I felt a little bit like a fisherman having my meshes that I threw to see what these waters can bring me it was a department in Galerilla in Galerilla in Galerilla called the Gertrude the found objects there was a lady sitting in the house one of the most strange objects that you found in your gallery and she said this old man, a metro looks like a beggar but instead of begging about his narration about Michel de Montaigne and everything she's wearing the bison in her clothes I'm going to tell you when I said that I'm sick I'm really sick no I don't want to go home it doesn't make any difference if I go home or not actually I think that in France your health system for sure is much better so I think it's better for me to stay in France and go to a doctor and you see I have this illness it turned out I've been diagnosed three days ago it's a very rare illness one in apparently five five or 50 million people get it so I guess it's not so rare actually yeah and you have very strange symptoms first of all you don't want to eat certain foods they just taste very disgusting but then you really want to eat a lot of other foods so you have a big appetite but you also have a very very low appetite so it's an illness of many parts of your body it's an illness of your respiratory system it's an illness of your nervous system what do you want it's an illness of your blood system you want an egg all of your organs start behaving very strange they start transforming into other beings you don't recognize them anymore they're not yours they live in your body but they are not yours they're autonomous beings and they start to have a party in your own body and you cannot control them at all they transform into very strange beings it's like a horror movie in your own body it's like hello it's like a science fiction movie are you happy do you like to be strange I'm not some people do that as characters did you make it as characters in such things company in Cracow that was just a story really very nice story I think it's real I would like to share that there's an extra performance that nobody knows he had this tactic of being on the margins of the performance but through his margins he feels that he could influence reality of the performance and through the performance of reality Vojtek is tall he has glasses he has a round face dark pink lips blue eyes he's around 50 he's sitting he's trying not to be visible and he kept moving there is no charger I'm going to read you as long as my battery are along me and it's just 11% so it's not really not really long 11% of battery and this is the text that came to me while we were protesting in Warsaw we had a protest I organized something like a warm up for girls and women before going to the streets and protesting so we were dancing singing trying the voice emissions but also being together improvising listening to each other more bark all playing can be seen as an extension of singing the voice and extensions represent the musical dimension of men, women, children and animals Cornelius Carti close your eyes and listen try to imagine my voice it's the sensual voice of a telephone sex operator is it nice and cool like an airport an uncertainty due to your rape I want this voice and arouse your curiosity I want it to become your fetish I will recall the tale of Pythagoras who thought his students were hidden behind the curtain but there are 5 years of study his audience never saw the source of the vocalist's voice the phenomenon of the voice that comes from the speaker is what Michel Schum boring the composer and music called the acoustic voice for decades a voice heard the radios and loudspeakers commented on events called for action and pointed our enemies a voice that millions through was they own the voice of the crowd the moment before the election Donald Trump's alive Ben Carson replied to a thought question from the NSNBC journalist by saying to the programme's host can we turn this lady's microphone off a few months earlier in the middle of Europe a female tenants rights activist had her microphone turned off during a city hall committee a meeting still she didn't stop speaking and shouted out her demands to change the city policy and public speaking has been a male domain since ancient times and particularly is a phenomenon from between two worlds a non-woman and androgyn her alien sound irritates the audience antique writings do not usually stress the lack of content in the female speech but rather is acoustic quality the female voice is compared to the sounds made by animals such as cows and dogs it is perceived as noise and disturbance the art of rhetoric speaking about grave matters requires one to master deep male voice and Margaret Thatcher who at the beginning of her political career was often forbidden from speaking in the name of the party because she possessed the shrill voice of a housewife knew that well the iron lady voice was calm strong and deep it was the voice of authority the most famous and infamous tones of British politics were the effect of years of training which the British prime minister received from the royal theater college voice projection teacher and let's imagine an immigrant trying to learn the English language and to lose the accent with the trace of his origin Thatcher despite having the privilege of being born white and British as well as speaking flawless Queen's English had to get rid of her female sound to betray not quite her sex but the existence of what had been expelled from the public's fur the abstract voice of authority so overdone as to became a mockery of the black trust we place in it is Laurie Anderson local mask the American artist uses a mock order and far use effects which lower her voice to create an alter ego there is something that we can call the biopolitics of the voice and the ancient Greeks had two worlds for life it was a zoo which stood for life in itself primal and wild the opposite of Tantos and Beos the life of an individual a period of time ending in death George Alamand considers these two worlds with the context of biopolitics Beos is life within the political realm the actualization of life within the limits set out by the community and so on the other hand is life excluded from the community and its exclusion given a foundation allowed to exist the excluded service as a mute invisible substrate holding up the political form and this mechanism of inclusive exclusion is the foundation of western politics and during the black protest on October 3, 2016 tens of thousands of women across Poland came out on the streets to protest against a proposed law banning abortion in their comments many members of the ruling party accused the opposition of dehumanizing women we won't allow Polish women to be dragged out into the streets set one female member of the parliament Polish women are not cattle or dogs that you can just drag out somewhere wrote women on the internet in his metamorphosis Orbit recounts the story of an Athenian princess Philomela who was raped by Theros the husband of her sister in order to hide the truth about this crime the king of Trace cut out a girl's tongue this way Philomela was raped again she was silenced, deprived of the symbolic structure and the part of her body a new means of communication was born from this rape of her freedom the princess wore a patch of cloth that revealed the brutal truth of what had been done to her when her sister received the cloth her rage was unspeakable she couldn't find the right words to express it the language of her father was unable to encompass the pain and indignation her revenge was terrible she fed her husband the son's flesh transgressing the patriarchal order and forcing Theros to undergo the female experience of caring another human being within them Philomela had no political rights but remained an Athenian citizen this reminds me of a commentary by the Indian writer and activist Arudati Roy on the tragic events which took place in Delhi 2012 she said that these events received wide attention only because the victim was a member of the middle class a number of women who experienced sexual violence never speak out because silence of victims is a silence caused by the weight of complicity it seems that the social order is broken not by the rapist act but by the victim's testimony likewise can we give voice to animals and the hurt-abused planet the battle ends to be continued thank you for your attention thank you for your patience it's a very small space and the actual results that maybe you are not sitting like in a theater but you are free to walk and talk and maybe commune there are several other artists here from Poland we are tomorrow presenting five young Polish women directors and we will explain why we call them father killers two of them are here there is Anna Smola and Magda Śpiew who are just present here but here in the video you see scenes also from their work intertwined with some scenes from Warsaw and Poznan protest and also work of other women we called this kind of collage Siren 451 we have a very secret situation and we know why it's called 451 and we thank you very much