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Papers by Laura Malacart
Domus, 2017
“Speak Robert” is a journey into British history and global trade, narrated by London-based artis... more “Speak Robert” is a journey into British history and global trade, narrated by London-based artist Laura Malacart at The Artists’ Pavilion during the Biennale Arte 2017. #BiennaleArte2017
Language & Ecology, 2024
Ada Bellanova offers a critical reflection of the impact and relevance of the installation Ode to... more Ada Bellanova offers a critical reflection of the impact and relevance of the
installation Ode to Rachel Carson by Laura Malacart. The artwork, which opened on the day of the G7 summit, celebrates Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in a specific context at a particular moment in time.
The new soundtrack, Mar 1, 2012
Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utter... more Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utterance. Its content makes a political comment about the oppressive potential of language. Shot in real time, with an emphasis on process, Voicings is designed to undermine the socio-normative connotations attached to the perfect articulation (and by proxy in ‘Received Pronunciation’) in mainstream performance. Emphasis is placed on the film's soundtrack and the deconstructive process which occurs at the level of the spoken word. Many artists’ moving image works engage critically with the politics of representation by dismantling the role of the cinematic apparatus, yet traditionally this process privileges the visual. In Voicings, the focus has shifted from the visual to the aural, in order to explore how the voice can dismantle the potential for social oppression contained in everyday speech. Formally, the work operates at the level of the script and its enunciation, while contextually it asks the following que...
This project aims at reconfiguring power and agency in voice representation using the metaphor of... more This project aims at reconfiguring power and agency in voice representation using the metaphor of ventriloquism. The analysis departs from ‘ventriloquial objects’, mostly moving image, housed in a fictional museum, MUVE. The museum’s architecture is metaphoric and reflects a critical approach couched in liminality. A ‘pseudo-fictional’ voice precedes and complements the ‘theoretical’ voice in the main body of work. After the Fiction, an introductory chapter defines the specific role that the trope of ventriloquism is going to fulfill in context. If the voice is already defined by liminality, between inside and outside the body, equally, a liminal trajectory can be found in the functional distinction between the verbal (emphasis on a semantic message) and the vocal (emphasis on sonorous properties) in the utterance. This liminal trajectory is harnessed along three specific moments corresponding to the three main chapters. They also represent the themes that define the museum rooms jo...
Open Democracy, 2017
Sociologist Sara de Jong explores the issues raised in 'Speak Robert' an installation by Laura Ma... more Sociologist Sara de Jong explores the issues raised in 'Speak Robert' an installation by Laura Malacart shown at Tate Exchange and in a distinct iteration at the Venice Biennale and which addresses notions of racial travesty and global marketing with the new reincarnation of the East India Company as a luxury goods outlet.
Animot, 2021
Italian translation of the script of the eponymous essay film (2020, 24). The three episodes of t... more Italian translation of the script of the eponymous essay film (2020, 24).
The three episodes of the film focus on the politics of languages in relation to ecology, the irrationality of borders and the healing role of art in traditional cultures.
Language & Ecology, 2021
This piece is the script of the first 'episode' of the video essay The Difference between a Bird ... more This piece is the script of the first 'episode' of the video essay The Difference between a Bird and a Plane' (2020, 24')
ISSN 1745-3631
The New Soundtrack, 2012
Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utter... more Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utterance. Its content makes a political comment about the oppressive potential of language. Shot in real time, with an emphasis on process, Voicings is designed to undermine the socio-normative connotations attached to the perfect articulation (and by proxy in ‘Received Pronunciation’) in mainstream performance. Emphasis is placed on the film's soundtrack and the deconstructive process which occurs at the level of the spoken word. Many artists’ moving image works engage critically with the politics of representation by dismantling the role of the cinematic apparatus, yet traditionally this process privileges the visual. In Voicings, the focus has shifted from the visual to the aural, in order to explore how the voice can dismantle the potential for social oppression contained in everyday speech. Formally, the work operates at the level of the script and its enunciation, while contextually it asks the following que...
Feminist Art, Activisms and Artivisms, 2020
Salon for a Speculative Future, 2020
Books by Laura Malacart
Arte e Spazio Pubblico, 2023
This book chapter focuses on the process and outcomes of Collaborative Toponymy, a public art com... more This book chapter focuses on the process and outcomes of Collaborative Toponymy, a public art commission where Laura Malacart co-created over 300 street names for a town to be built in the UK. This case study is analysed by considering how the parameters of the commission and the site interact with the creative process; how past and present engage in a research process where ultimately as landscape is to be assigned permanent references. Finally the text reflects on the notion of completion and how an artivist work might be conceived as a methodology to be activated using multidisciplinary activities.
Arte e spazio pubblico è un progetto di ricerca a cura della Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura e della Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali. Una ricerca su pratiche artistiche e strategie di progettazione negli spazi pubblici, su processi partecipativi, politiche pubbliche di rigenerazione di spazi urbani e territori, su committenti, mediatori e comunità, sul ruolo della conservazione delle opere d'arte nello spazio pubblico e sulla temporalità dell'opera d'arte pubblica. Il volume restituisce gli esiti delle giornate di studio Arte e spazio pubblico, dei tavoli di lavoro e della giornata di sintesi finale. Raccoglie i contributi di studiosi, artisti e curatori, architetti, giuristi e attori istituzionali, selezionati da una call for abstract e invitati a presentare ricerche, pratiche e casi studio, da cui emerge una visione a tutto campo sui temi Spazio, Temporalità, Partecipazione e Committenza.
Collaborative Toponymy, 2022
'Toponymy is a political act. It is political regardless of who does the naming, or what processe... more 'Toponymy is a political act. It is political regardless of who does the naming, or what processes they employ: naming a place gives it a particular meaning, with an official status that supersedes all other informal, vernacular understandings of the place'. This is sociologist Meghan Tinsley's Foreword to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide consisting of the entire compendium of street names for a new garden village to be built in Essex. The proejct was created in response to an open call for a public art commission in 2021. Over 300 street names were co-created, representing an ethical and diverse body of research describing the territory via its demographics, histories and ecologies.
Collaborative Toponymy, 2022
This is the author's Introduction to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide, cons... more This is the author's Introduction to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide, consisting of the entire compendium of street names for a new garden village to be built in Essex. The proejct was created in response to an open call for a public art commission in 2021. Over 300 street names were co-created, representing an ethical and diverse body of research describing the territory via its demographics, histories and ecologies.
Domus, 2017
“Speak Robert” is a journey into British history and global trade, narrated by London-based artis... more “Speak Robert” is a journey into British history and global trade, narrated by London-based artist Laura Malacart at The Artists’ Pavilion during the Biennale Arte 2017. #BiennaleArte2017
Language & Ecology, 2024
Ada Bellanova offers a critical reflection of the impact and relevance of the installation Ode to... more Ada Bellanova offers a critical reflection of the impact and relevance of the
installation Ode to Rachel Carson by Laura Malacart. The artwork, which opened on the day of the G7 summit, celebrates Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in a specific context at a particular moment in time.
The new soundtrack, Mar 1, 2012
Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utter... more Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utterance. Its content makes a political comment about the oppressive potential of language. Shot in real time, with an emphasis on process, Voicings is designed to undermine the socio-normative connotations attached to the perfect articulation (and by proxy in ‘Received Pronunciation’) in mainstream performance. Emphasis is placed on the film's soundtrack and the deconstructive process which occurs at the level of the spoken word. Many artists’ moving image works engage critically with the politics of representation by dismantling the role of the cinematic apparatus, yet traditionally this process privileges the visual. In Voicings, the focus has shifted from the visual to the aural, in order to explore how the voice can dismantle the potential for social oppression contained in everyday speech. Formally, the work operates at the level of the script and its enunciation, while contextually it asks the following que...
This project aims at reconfiguring power and agency in voice representation using the metaphor of... more This project aims at reconfiguring power and agency in voice representation using the metaphor of ventriloquism. The analysis departs from ‘ventriloquial objects’, mostly moving image, housed in a fictional museum, MUVE. The museum’s architecture is metaphoric and reflects a critical approach couched in liminality. A ‘pseudo-fictional’ voice precedes and complements the ‘theoretical’ voice in the main body of work. After the Fiction, an introductory chapter defines the specific role that the trope of ventriloquism is going to fulfill in context. If the voice is already defined by liminality, between inside and outside the body, equally, a liminal trajectory can be found in the functional distinction between the verbal (emphasis on a semantic message) and the vocal (emphasis on sonorous properties) in the utterance. This liminal trajectory is harnessed along three specific moments corresponding to the three main chapters. They also represent the themes that define the museum rooms jo...
Open Democracy, 2017
Sociologist Sara de Jong explores the issues raised in 'Speak Robert' an installation by Laura Ma... more Sociologist Sara de Jong explores the issues raised in 'Speak Robert' an installation by Laura Malacart shown at Tate Exchange and in a distinct iteration at the Venice Biennale and which addresses notions of racial travesty and global marketing with the new reincarnation of the East India Company as a luxury goods outlet.
Animot, 2021
Italian translation of the script of the eponymous essay film (2020, 24). The three episodes of t... more Italian translation of the script of the eponymous essay film (2020, 24).
The three episodes of the film focus on the politics of languages in relation to ecology, the irrationality of borders and the healing role of art in traditional cultures.
Language & Ecology, 2021
This piece is the script of the first 'episode' of the video essay The Difference between a Bird ... more This piece is the script of the first 'episode' of the video essay The Difference between a Bird and a Plane' (2020, 24')
ISSN 1745-3631
The New Soundtrack, 2012
Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utter... more Voicings is a moving image work designed to destabilise the relationship between script and utterance. Its content makes a political comment about the oppressive potential of language. Shot in real time, with an emphasis on process, Voicings is designed to undermine the socio-normative connotations attached to the perfect articulation (and by proxy in ‘Received Pronunciation’) in mainstream performance. Emphasis is placed on the film's soundtrack and the deconstructive process which occurs at the level of the spoken word. Many artists’ moving image works engage critically with the politics of representation by dismantling the role of the cinematic apparatus, yet traditionally this process privileges the visual. In Voicings, the focus has shifted from the visual to the aural, in order to explore how the voice can dismantle the potential for social oppression contained in everyday speech. Formally, the work operates at the level of the script and its enunciation, while contextually it asks the following que...
Feminist Art, Activisms and Artivisms, 2020
Salon for a Speculative Future, 2020
Arte e Spazio Pubblico, 2023
This book chapter focuses on the process and outcomes of Collaborative Toponymy, a public art com... more This book chapter focuses on the process and outcomes of Collaborative Toponymy, a public art commission where Laura Malacart co-created over 300 street names for a town to be built in the UK. This case study is analysed by considering how the parameters of the commission and the site interact with the creative process; how past and present engage in a research process where ultimately as landscape is to be assigned permanent references. Finally the text reflects on the notion of completion and how an artivist work might be conceived as a methodology to be activated using multidisciplinary activities.
Arte e spazio pubblico è un progetto di ricerca a cura della Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura e della Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali. Una ricerca su pratiche artistiche e strategie di progettazione negli spazi pubblici, su processi partecipativi, politiche pubbliche di rigenerazione di spazi urbani e territori, su committenti, mediatori e comunità, sul ruolo della conservazione delle opere d'arte nello spazio pubblico e sulla temporalità dell'opera d'arte pubblica. Il volume restituisce gli esiti delle giornate di studio Arte e spazio pubblico, dei tavoli di lavoro e della giornata di sintesi finale. Raccoglie i contributi di studiosi, artisti e curatori, architetti, giuristi e attori istituzionali, selezionati da una call for abstract e invitati a presentare ricerche, pratiche e casi studio, da cui emerge una visione a tutto campo sui temi Spazio, Temporalità, Partecipazione e Committenza.
Collaborative Toponymy, 2022
'Toponymy is a political act. It is political regardless of who does the naming, or what processe... more 'Toponymy is a political act. It is political regardless of who does the naming, or what processes they employ: naming a place gives it a particular meaning, with an official status that supersedes all other informal, vernacular understandings of the place'. This is sociologist Meghan Tinsley's Foreword to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide consisting of the entire compendium of street names for a new garden village to be built in Essex. The proejct was created in response to an open call for a public art commission in 2021. Over 300 street names were co-created, representing an ethical and diverse body of research describing the territory via its demographics, histories and ecologies.
Collaborative Toponymy, 2022
This is the author's Introduction to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide, cons... more This is the author's Introduction to Collaborative Toponymy, an artwork and reference guide, consisting of the entire compendium of street names for a new garden village to be built in Essex. The proejct was created in response to an open call for a public art commission in 2021. Over 300 street names were co-created, representing an ethical and diverse body of research describing the territory via its demographics, histories and ecologies.