Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE)

$25.00 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Drawing from LACMA's encyclopedic collection Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE)  shows how ventriloquism relies on the confusion between sight and hearing, puppeteer and puppet, silence and speech. Issues of agency, authorship, and objecthood are at the core of even the most conventional ventriloquist sketch: Where is the voice coming from? How is that voice split into many bodies? Who is speaking on behalf of whom? Using this popular form of entertainment as a guide, the exhibition stages dialogues…