Juh Tem Oh We

“Juh tem, oh we” (no.1), (2016)

Video: 4 minutes.
Two-channel video projection, audio, silver gilded plaster-cast tongue: 3x1.5 inches, MDF plinth: 45x20x20 inches.

Disembodied, inhibiting tongues flicker at the idea(/ideal) of the female ‘muse’. The speaker in the video wears a pigmented silicone tongue over their own tongue whilst speaking a bad, phonetic translation of Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg’s song Je t’aime moi non plus.

(Exhibited at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, 2016 - first 5 images on this page).



“Juh tem, oh we” (no. 2), (2016)
Audio: 3min58s .
Audio, pigmented silicone, MDF, (plinth and sculpture: 38”x22”).

The second installation of this work comprised a quadraphonic audio piece and pink silicone tongue from the original video.

(Exhibited in ‘Quad Show’, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, 2016 - last 3 images on this page).