Sujin Lee |
Lee writes on the concrete ground of the park with a white chalk, using the phonetic symbols from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (Second Edition). Copies of a phonetic symbol table are available for the audience’s reference. When the audience reads the text that’s written on the ground, he/she performs the act of translating written text to spoken text through the rules of pronunciation which may not be familiar to him/her (i.e. phonetic symbols). Therefore, his/her speech often staggers. The dictionary that the artist uses features both British and American English pronunciations and she alternates between them.
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