Freya Powell

Not All Responses Are Repetition, Not All Repetitions Are Responses, focuses on echo, both a sonic phenomenon and a mythic figure. Working with moving image, photography, and voice, the work explores echo as a structure of experience: delayed, fragmented, and irreducibly relational.

An echo is not a copy. It returns belatedly and, in that delay, something shifts. The changing conditions of its return make the original utterance susceptible to new meaning. What comes back is not the sound itself but its having been. This is also how memory works, and perhaps how trauma does: the past resounds in the present through traces, fragments, and acts of recall that mark distance even as they return. The work moves through four interlocking areas of inquiry: disorientation and delay; mimesis and myth; the chorus and the chamber; and trauma and reiteration.

voice over:
Natasha Walfall
Monroe Robertson

Mezzo Soprano:
Sophie Delphis

Dancer:
Amelia Heintzelman

Cello:
Iva Casion-Lakos

Composition:
Samuel Lang Budin

Sound Design:
Quentin Chiappetta

Camera:
Freya PowelL
Kai Miller

production assistant:
Emilija Berga