Borrowed Voices (2022)
sound installation, 6-speakers, 12 min, played every half an hour

Vocalists: Constanza Castagnet & Rebecca Rui; Composers: Povilas Čepulis & Kipras Kaukėnas; Sound design
& mixing: Povilas Čepulis; Text: Tina Bastajian; Installation photos: Matthijs van der Burgt; Visual identity: Nicolò Pellarin

Walking through Carmen Dusmet Carrasco’s spa­ti­al six-spea­ker sonic instal­la­ti­on Borrowed Voices, one is immer­sed into a mono­lo­gue inte­ri­or that blurs and see­ps into a rhe­to­ri­cal and iro­nic dia­lo­gue, echo­ing the ‘thin­king pro­cess’ as labor itself. Carefully scrip­ted per­so­nal wri­tings are mer­ged with col­lec­ted and bor­ro­wed frag­ments, ran­ging from Twitter and pod­casts to various inspi­ra­ti­o­nal texts and song lyrics. Carmen’s sonic sca­pe bra­zen­ly dis­tills from the­se inter­tex­tu­al sour­ces a reve­rie of loop­ed and con­fes­si­o­nal voi­ces that echo our inti­ma­te and col­lec­ti­ve encoun­ters with modes of pro­cras­ti­na­ti­on, self-ques­ti­o­ning, and doubt.