Speak That I Can See You: An interactive itinerary on communication.

Medical videos of an open heart surgery, an eye scan, a fetus, and sounding vocal cords shape the exhibition space. Voices speak in three languages a text about fear.

In the center of the space, a body is offered as canvas for thoughts. The visitors are invited to write with a feather on the male’s back. It derives a blood-like effect, but the action is smooth and gentle. The woman cancels the word with water and collects the liquid in a glass container, labelling it with the actual written word.

* In their performance Speak That I Can See You VestAndPage examine, among others, the hollow actions, performed by millions with no identity just for the sake of comfort, and tell us that communication has become another one of them which needs to be re-evaluated with a fresh eye. We cannot just perform it on a daily basis, without giving a second thought to its deeper sense, to the fact that it is supposed to convey meaning and not exist just as an empty exchange. We are not allowed to delude ourselves with a feeling of control that has a null value, since the controlled object, the surrounding world, with its inherent chatter, like a radio picking up stations or static, evolves independently of our daily movements in space and is not subdued by actions with superficial coherence and no underlying value. VestAndPage here stimulate and request us to be able to see the hidden meaning, which exists either outside of us or inside us, and how it affects our everyday decisions. And that we have to break ourselves from the comforting value of rituals that numb us.

1. *Dana Altman, Art Critic, New York in her book Art and Multiplicity

* Photos: Edward Smith, Exhibition “Speak That I Can See You” at Fondaco dell’Arte, Venice, 2009

* Duration 1-3 hours

* Winner of ArtKontakt Prize, Porto Palermo, Albania (2007)

> READ the essay by Dana Altman in Art&Multiplicity

* ArtKontakt, Porto Palermo, Albania. August 2007.

* Mulliqi Prize 2007, Kosovo Contemporary Art Gallery, Pristine, Kosovo. December 2007.

* Fondaco dell'Arte, ArteCommunications/Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy. April 2009.

* AdmCom, Bologna, Italy. June 2009.

* XIV BJCEM Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje, Macedonia. September 2009.

* Fabrica Braca de Prato, Lisbon. January 2010.

* ACCION EN VIVO Y DIFERIDO (live internet performance), Bogota, Colombia. March 2010.

* TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic. October 2010.

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