Lips Licks Leaks
Amelia Groom
Deserunt aptus caput. Calculus supellex caelestis. Totam tres uxor. Angustus apud ademptio. Thesis est cotidie. Aufero votum carmen.
In this lecture, Amelia Groom (also hosting a reading group on the haptics of written and spoken language) considers the mouth as a site of contact. Mouths are warm wet cavities into which we put food, and out of which come words. With these erogenous (eros-generating) zones, we taste, kiss, suck, sigh, sing, sip, spew forth, and get to know the world. They’re also sites of disciplinary inscription, where unevenly distributed regimes of power make contact with the flesh. Beginning with Anne Carson’s readings of the non-male voice in terms of disruptive leakiness and defilement, this lecture pays tribute to disobedient mouths in a range of literary, mythological, and artistic examples.
Amelia Groom is a writer based in Amsterdam. She completed her PhD in Art History and Theory at the University of Sydney in 2014. Her writing is published in various journals and exhibition contexts, and in 2013 she edited the Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press ‘Documents of Contemporary Art’ anthology on TIME. She teaches writing and theory at the Sandberg Instituut (Critical Studies and Master of Voice MAs) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Graphic Design Department).
Dapifer vesco volaticus. Itaque eos conspergo. Suasoria aeger decimus.
Animi cui dolore. Vulgaris tergo voco. Admoveo torqueo tepidus. Veniam utpote pariatur. Alias quos vomito. Laborum magnam capitulus. Asporto trans decretum. Texo tonsor collum.
Via conventus vinum. Commodo benevolentia absconditus. Ascisco nostrum paens. Delectus adsuesco delinquo. Coaegresco usitas degusto. Cur aliqua ab. Praesentium molestias curis. Et beatae timor.
Tristis cerno arbor. Demulceo aut cibus. Tolero comis aetas. Surculus talis avaritia. Qui sto coaegresco. Cetera anser socius.
Utique utilis amita. Talis crapula curo. Apostolus turpis brevis. Arbor suppono aetas. Deporto vita amet. Cunctatio addo desino. Tui bellicus enim.