Speak My Language explores the entanglement of sound, speech and music. Each month, the show features a guest, radio fictions and a curated playlist.

This month, Jasmin spoke with Maura Brewer about her films, in particular Jessica Manafort (2019) which will be screened at the Double Exposure screening series.

Maura Brewer’s work in video, performance and experimental fashion design explores the construction of female subjects in mass culture. Her video essays combine footage from Hollywood films, television and Internet subcultures to question the ways that popular culture mimes the language of feminism in the service of patriarchal capitalism. Brewer was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow from 2014-2015, and received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Her projects, videos and performances have been shown at MoMA, New York; MCA, Chicago, MUMOK, Vienna and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Her work has been the subject of solo projects at the University of California, Irvine; Art in General, New York; and Queens, Los Angeles. She is a 2017 California Community Foundation Fellow, and a 2016 and 2018 Creative Economic Development Fund grantee. Her video work is included in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Brewer is a founding member of the Rational Dress Society, a counter-fashion collective, and Arts Research Cooperative, an experimental art school. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

TRACKLIST:
Rozaneh – Bayat Shiraz
PYUR – Delphos – Oratorio For The Underground

Interview Maura Brewer

Swans – The Hanging Man
drøne – the stilling side a – drøne – Pomperiposa Records
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Martha Hvid – Oscillations Of Simple Harmonic Motion

Spoken word piece: Chill Beats To Study And Relax To – Jasmin Blasco
Over: Spotify Playlist Chill Beats to Study and Relax To
Empty Set – Petals
Paul Jebanasam – Music For The Church Of St John The Baptist