Colleen Asper // to catch the sounds that she can then give back with her own voice zine launch

Join Colleen Asper with artists Katherine Behar and Chang Yuchen, composer Julie Harting, and translator C. Luke Soucy for the launch of to catch the sounds that she can then give back with her own voice. 

This zine was produced as part of Asper’s exhibition at Baruch’s New Media Artspace of a four-part video which remediates a 2021 performance by Colleen Asper and Julie Harting. The title, drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, describes the limitation imposed on the character Echo—to only speak the last words she hears.

Echo’s story is intertwined with that of Narcissus in Ovid’s original tale but largely left out of subsequent retellings of Narcissus’s encounter with his reflection. Asper instead intervenes to “sees Echo and Narcissus as making up two sides of mimesis, reflection of the self and reflection of the other, but also auditory and visual mimesis.”

The zine to catch the sounds that she can then give back with her own voice collects the score and script from the 2021 performance and the responses from 22 practitioners across disciplines to the question: “How do you think about repetition in your work?” 

For this event Colleen Asper and Julie Harting will share their contributions to the performance, Katherine Behar and Chang Yuchen will discuss their art practice, and C. Luke Soucy will read from his 2023 translation of Metamorphosis.