Glossolalia
52’  /  Video  /  2018

Set on a single stage, Glossolalia brings together a Method Acting class, in which actors are trained to access and utilise the unconscious and irrational aspects of their nature, and an Accent Softening Course for Business, in which international workers learn the ‘Standard English’ accent to help advance their careers in the UK.

A series of scenes—including children learning to speak and a contortionist performing—is interspersed throughout, further questioning our conditioned relationships to language, behaviour and pedagogy in twenty-first-century Britain.
 Director | Ree Bradley
Cinematography | Ree Bradley and Irene Gomez-Emillson

Accent Teacher | Kate Montague
Accent Class Participants | Omar Fernandez, Micaela Ghiozzi, Marcel Hagen, Cristina Massaro, Beatrix Newsome, Nikolay Soyer, Sabrina Richmond
Method Acting Teacher | Sam Rumbelow
Method Acting Class Participants | Sam Rumbelow’s Summer Term 2017 Method Acting class
Child Actors | Leon Clarke, Jasmine Green, Finn Kelly, Sienna James-Alleyne, Micah Rylan-Pillay, Starzian West
Contortionist | Ramona Reinvall

Special Thanks | Angelica Bollettinari, Ariel Caine, Jasper Dharko, Elaine Eaglestone at Casting Kids, Denise Ebsworth, Irene Gomez-Emillson, Kate Montague, Layla Mrazi, Ferrara Residency, Sam Rumbelow and his class, Dean Ross, Susan Schuppli

Installation Views | Soft Architecture, Goldsmiths University, MA Centre for Research Architecture Degree Show, London, UK, 2017