Motivational Speech Archive on Soundcloud
In 2016 I started collecting fictional motivational speeches from movies and TV shows. So far I have excerpted 200 monologues from mostly Hollywood films, mostly from the 80s - 2010s. I am in the process of editing them in such a way that they speak to the listener directly without interruptions by other characters or specifying the vocation or activity they were originally referring to. I am collecting them on various social media platforms where they can be shared, listened to and used by others. I want to know, has the meaning of these speeches shifted after they have been ripped from their place in a narrative, a storyline? Cinema can hold such great power over its viewers, and sometimes its stories seep over into real life. What do these motivational speeches feel like in their abundance, what do they become? Are they suspended? Are they, at their core, a positive influence or do they become oppressive in their simplicity?
Exhibition history
2017 Supported by Titanik Gallery during artist residency. Turku, FI Publication
2017 Voice Of Doxa. Zona Dynamic/Glogau Air. Berlin, DE G
Publication
2017 Titanik 2017. Annual exhibition catalogue Titanik Gallery. Turku, FI
notes
.archive was used to create soundscape in Promises and Premises