Hanne Lippard

Examining different textures of visual and audible language under the manifold lights that can be shed upon it, Hanne Lippard develops primarily spatial audio installations and vocal performances. In conversation with Luisa Kleemann, she reflects on the unfolding of the potential and political power of language, extralinguistic experiences, as well as on the transitory spaces that open up within it.

LK

Some time ago I was reading The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector and had to think of the performative reading The Egg and the Chicken: Reading Clarice Lispector at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2020, which you were part of. I was particularly taken with the page where Lispector lists all the alternate titles of the novel and poetically explores ways to convey meaning through the enumeration of other equally matching titles: "The Blame is Mine or The Hour of the Star or Let Her Fend for Herself or The Right to Protest or Singing the Blues or She Doesn't Know How to Protest or A Sense of Loss or Whistling in the Dark Wind or I Can Do Nothing or A Record of Preceding Events or A Tearful Tale ог A Discreet Exit by the Back Door"¹. Would you say that you write through the act of reading?