VUDUVUM VADAVÃLinguistic Powder

There's pre, pro, post, and powder. 
Ooh!
What lingo tis?
Subtract 
Tract
Act
C
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Starting from the exhibition Linguagem/corrente, by Asier Mendizabal, Vuduvum Vadavã provokes us with a Linguistic Workshopow. Let the tongue work, unleashing the onomatopoeic side, to see how the unwritten emerges into the world of the spoken or hot babbling language. Coughing, sneezing, infinite forms of breathing and their rhythm, the indecipherable sub-utterance. Once the body becomes emptied out of meaning, we take emptiness as our premise. Silence. In cleaner grounds, free from references or concepts, the first particles of voice emerge. Through hand gestures, we code these atomic objects. How do we symbolize such words? How do we translate them into drawings? All these inscriptions will eventually roll up their own tongue.

Vuduvum Vadavã was born in Porto, she is half of the duo Von Calhau! with João Artur. Her passion lies in the absurd, in the wild and primitive state of language, from the pre-verbal to the palindrome and other far-fetched word games. This investigation focuses on the relationship between opposites, which can be complementary or repellent in their combination. In the visual and non-visual arts, singing/voice, performance, circuit-bending or as DJ, she experiments with noise and silence in a drift driven by the unknown.