{"id":3918,"date":"2013-11-25T18:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artjournalstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2019-11-19T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:00:14","slug":"the-voice-as-uncanny-index-in-susan-hillers-the-last-silent-movie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"The Voice as Uncanny Index in Susan Hiller\u2019s <em>The Last Silent Movie<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\">From <\/span><em><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\">Art Journal<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\"> 72, no. 2 (Summer 2013)<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hiller-Kora-for-website-.gif\" class=\"full_width\" style=\"border:1px solid #000;\"><\/p>\n<strong>Susan Hiller,&nbsp;<em>The Last Silent Movie<\/em>, 2007,<\/strong> plate 1 from a series of 25 etchings completed in 2008, ea. 14-1\/2 x 16-3\/4 in. (37 x 42.5 cm) (artwork \u00a9 Susan Hiller)\n<hr>\n<p>In the darkened projection room, the viewer hears twenty-five voices in succession speaking short passages in extinct or endangered languages. Susan Hiller collected the recordings for her twenty-one-minute audiovisual work <em>The Last Silent Movie<\/em> from a variety of archival sources. In some cases, the narrator is the last known speaker of the language. The piece includes a series of etchings hang nearby; they transcribe the sound waves produced by phrases from each of the collected sound clips.<\/p>\n<p> The artist writes that the work \u201callows us to hear the words and voices of people mostly now dead. In <em>The Last Silent Movie<\/em>, some of them sing, some tell stories, some recite vocabulary lists, and some of them, directly or indirectly, accuse us, the listeners, of injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.susanhiller.org\/Video\/susan.mp3\" width=\"127\" height=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>This passage in the K\u2019ora language of South Africa is voiced by its last surviving speaker, Mukalap, at a 1938 conference of linguists in Johannesburg, where it was recorded on wax. The entire minute-long speech is translated in Kokoli\u2019s essay. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the darkened projection room, the viewer hears twenty-five voices in succession speaking short passages in extinct or endangered languages. Susan Hiller collected the recordings for her twenty-one-minute audiovisual work <em>The Last Silent Movie<\/em> from a variety of archival sources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-art-journal",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}