This Is My Voice
Video performance / video installation, approx. 500 x 300 cm, 8:05 min, HD, sound, 2010
In This Is My Voice, Roland Wegerer turns a personal speech impediment into a compelling work of contemporary media art. Ten synchronized recordings of the artist are projected at the same time, forming a stuttering chorus that fills the installation space with rhythm, repetition, and tension.
The work is built around everyday German phrases such as asking for directions, ordering food, and saying goodbye, yet their familiar meaning gradually dissolves as voice, sound, and language break apart into a fractured sonic structure. What emerges is not only a portrait of stuttering, but also an artistic reflection on communication, vulnerability, identity, and self-empowerment.
By multiplying his own voice, Wegerer transforms a deeply personal experience into an immersive audiovisual composition. The stutter is not hidden or corrected; instead, it becomes a creative force, shaping the work’s visual and acoustic presence and inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between speech, body, and self. The result is a powerful performance that moves between intimacy and monumentality, turning language into material and hesitation into expression.
