Tongue Twister - The Gesture of Speaking / Koch/Debler (USA/D)
40 min Video Installation - Loop on 3 Screens

Tongue Twisters in 50 Languages

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FROM. NOBODY´S PERFECT!

Münster, Babylon: A multitude of languages are vivid in people's minds and brought to life in a 40-minute video installation "Tongue Twister - The Gesture of Speaking". Friederike Koch and Christof Debler combed the streets of Munster, Germany to find 50 people of all ages speaking 50 different native tongues and recorded all of them on camera performing a tongue twister in their mother tongue. Koch / Debler captured their successes and failures with their tongue twisters to create a humorous concert of language and humanity by editing all recordings on three simultaneously running screens. As one enters the video installation, the audience will hear cacophony and then experience a game of rhythm and sound with chanting, mantra, beatboxing, rap & poetry slam. Koch and Debler position themselves with "Tongue Twister – The Gesture of Speaking " against any form of racism and exclusion. The focus is on people - regardless of their origin - with their flaws (and being in touch with their “inner idiot”).

Friederike and Christof choose me, to edit their video installation for three screens presented the first time on the Flurstücke019 festival in Münster. We edited a patchwork of 60 people living in Münster telling their favorite tongue twisters in their mother tongue.
The above video is the online trailer, to the installation that was presented for 3 days next to claas oldenburgs giant billard balls at Münsters Aasee during the festival.