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A Study in Vocal Intonation

Voice has become a new means of introducing themes of memory, history and loss into Alberta Whittle's films. Moving to the UK from Barbados meant that her understanding of history, which was related to inherited memories of her ancestors and living family, but also from history taught in school was suddenly invalid, erased and invisible in a Western environment. This discomfort with the realization that memory and history do not always intersect motivates her film practice, which aims to encourage a process of decolonization through producing counter narratives, which reveal a state of collective amnesia. Whittle has named this condition, The Luxury of Amnesia, because it describes the ability to forget colonial histories. She considers this viewpoint to emerge from a position of privilege, a luxury.
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  • Home
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • Works
    • Installation >
      • Life Support
      • RESET
      • How flexible can we make the mouth
      • Transparency
    • Collages >
      • Business as Usual
    • Film >
      • What sound does the black atlantic make
      • A Study in Vocal Intonation
      • Sorry, not Sorry
      • from the forest to the concrete (to the forest)
      • You Can Never Touch the Same Water Twice
      • Mammmmmmmywata Presents Life Solutions International
    • Lessons in Welcome
    • Performances >
      • Impossibility of Return
      • A Recipe for Planters Punch
      • Go Home / No Home
      • In Transit
      • Right of Admission
      • Right of Admission Part 2
      • Right of Admission Part 3
      • Right of Admission Part 4
      • Right of Admission Part 5
      • Big Red aka Bertie
      • The Cradle
    • Curatorial Projects >
      • INTERMISSION
  • NEWS/PRESS
  • Contact