The December issue of Europe's leading contemporary art journal, "Texte zur Kunst" focuses on the art of the lecture in theory and practice, with contributions from critics and scholars including Isabelle Graw, Branden Joseph, and Tavia Nyong'o. For his intervention, Mellon Professor Huey Copeland re-performed his 2014 talk "Voice Lessons," an homage to his advisor, art historian Anne M. Wagner, that was written on the occasion of her retirement from the University of California, Berkeley. As the journal explains, "Copeland chose to present a Zoom lecture, a format well-known since at least the pandemic. But [he] does not switch on the camera; instead, he is represented solely by his initials at the top of the presentation slides. This shifts the focus of his sparsely illustrated lecture almost entirely to its sonic qualities." Copeland's responses to the questionnaire "Record and Reflect" accompanies the video and expands on the limits and liabilities of appearance for othered peoples within Western cultural frameworks.
Watch "Voice Lessons" here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11479951
Read the questionnaire here: https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/136/questionnaire-huey-copeland-tzk-136/