During my first year in the MA New Performative Practices I unconsciously developed a parallel practice while in the bathtub. It began with a desire to speak and be heard (via the voice memo recorder on my phone). I played with language, voice, awareness and acoustics while my body was safely enveloped in heat and weightlessness. Speak-singing to water, in between nonsense and complete sentences, became a way to attend to life. This was not named ’a practice’ until now when trying to describe it in this text. Actually, I am not even sure that this description is necessary to accompany the audio you might chose to listen to, or not. All you really need to know is that it was recorded on Friday 25th of February, 2022, the day after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Sara Kaaman is a graphic designer and artist working through what publishing as performance can do, drawing from the politics and poetics of publishing as public action. Using a variety of strategies including publication-making by paper and voice, writing, printmaking, drawing and video, she sets up conditions to make language move.
www.sarakaaman.com