 Das Unsagbare Sagen, 1992 Valie Export's numerous films, videos, performances and her work as a curator bear out this Austrian artist's genre-spanning pursuits. In the early 1990s, she collaborated with Oswald and Ingrid Wiener in the documentary Das Unsagbare Sagen, placing at its centre forms of articulation far removed from any linguistic structure or norms. The piece shows, among others, aphatic speakers, sound poets and small children, while the extract presented here is devoted to the phenomenon of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, that is speaking without intelligible meaning. This religious practise was already mentioned as a sign of belief in the New Testament and is today practised mainly by Christian Pentecostalism. Valie Export, * 1940 in Linz (AT), lives and works in Cologne (D) and Vienna (AT) Ingrid Wiener, * 1942 in Vienna (AT), Oswald Wiener, * 1935 in Vienna (AT). Live and work in Vienna (AT)  VALIE EXPORT, INGRID and OSWALD WIENER, Das Unsagbare Sagen, 1992video (colour, sound), 45 min., extract of 12:50 min. Script: OSWALD WIENER Direction and Design: VALIE EXPORT, INGRID and OSWALD WIENER Camera: VALIE EXPORT and INGRID WIENER Sound: OSWALD WIENER Editor: Heinrich Mis Production: P.R.E.TV on behalf of ORF /Kunststücke
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