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Buzzing Bird
This extract is taken from a transcript of an interview between Sonia Boyce and Emma Dexter
SB: With the From Tarzan to Rambo piece, there is a speech bubble in which what look like natives say, "THE BUZZING BIRD SENDS US A VICTIM" The speech is complete gobbledygook, and I suppose that one of the things I've realized since then, is that these black characters occupy a sort of almost underworld space - they are inarticulate and any forms of articulate speech come from white characters - the main characters. And then just to talk a bit about the Tarzan figure and the so called natives in the jungle - they were taken from jungle adventure comics from the 1940's, as a source material, to fit into these narratives and to have, in a way, some kind of relationship to photographic images of this female figure. As I mentioned before, the native's (I can't think of calling it anything else I'm afraid) speech bubble makes completely no sense. |