Meital Yaniv
  • Meital Yaniv
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  • bodies, we are
  • Monsters In Their Eyes
  • How to Fight a Gun with a Bare Hand
  • us in precarity; words against reason
  • Home is a circle in the sand
  • Words on Paper
  • Spectrum for an Untouchable
  • mothertongues Vocal Transplantation
  • mothertongues PSA(Self-Brainwash Meditation#404)
  • mothertongues Untitled (Owl Experiment #101)
  • PR(E)Y
  • 12 frames, bronika
  • Wild Cage Empty Maze
  • blood flows in blue
  • I want you to live me, I want to leave with you
  • how big can a desk be?
  • shapeshifters
  • You came for us, We are going for us
  • They Broke The Mold When They Made Her
  • The Tiger The Object and The Ball
  • Preservation
  • Floating Water
  • Siren
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mothertongues is Kim Ye & Meital Yaniv

Vocal Transplantation is a performance, a therapeutic exercise, and an experiment in trust. Taking the bureaucracies in which we circulate as our starting point, we point to the limits these systems impose upon our expressions of personhood. As a strategy to combat a structure that draws its power from the ability to categorize, we blur our identities by wearing opaque black bodysuits that shift our specific identities into generic silhouettes. In this state, we voice words that we cannot put on the record. Filtering our expression through the surrogate body, we bypass immigration and litigation surveillance. Our tentacles connect us, and our glasses illuminate to the rhythm of one's own words spoken by the host’s voice. Like an incubator of secrets, we express our unmonitored and unsupervised truth.

Through collaboration, mothertongues creates a sphere of authorization to exercise communal frustrations, aspirations and fears using our bodies as objects of resistance. Like jazz musicians, we employ a call and response technique to augment one another’s intuitive decisions in the performing, filming, and editing process. Tears, laughter, joy, pain, vulnerability, and bravery co-mingle through mental and physical interpersonal explorations. As amatuer scientists, we run experiments of desire on ourselves and each other, observing and documenting the chemical reactions that occur between elements. In recording our findings as specifically and subjectively as possible, we create a fiction that speaks the truth.

Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar
Vocal Transplantation, photo by Ali Kheradyar