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Romance was especially conceived on occasion of Manifesta 11. The sound work consists of a two-part audio recording, created at a live translation session: in response to Ceal Floyer’s reading of the English text of a standard prenuptial agreement which a woman and a man in simultaneous translation booths translated into French and Italian respectively. The work plays on the double meaning of the word “romance” which connotes wooing and sentiment but, with an upper...
