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Lynn Book’s “tongue”, her critically received solo vocal performance, was an extended deconstruction of language, meaning and power through a poetics of feminist thought that extends the notion of ‘writing woman’s body’ to speaking it, voicing it and…

This short edited video documentation is from a live performance of the vocal work, “tongue” by Lynn Book at the Blue Rider Theater, Chicago. It was the second time Book performed an expanded version of it in an evening that also included her…

This complete video documentation of a live performance of the vocal work, “tongue” by Lynn Book took place at the Blue Rider Theater, Chicago, 1991. Book was invited to perform 2 of her original performance projects as part of an international…

Lynn Book was invited to perform “tongue” in Berlin in 1992 at two different venues - X ‘N Pop, a club in the Kreuzberg section of the former West and Knaack Galerie in the Prenzlauer Berg area of the former East. This incomplete video documentation…

“tongue” began as a vocal improvisation in the studio, a kind of freewriting that Lynn Book referred to as ‘audio journaling’, a practice she began in 1986. Ultimately, it became a critically received solo vocal performance concerned with extended…