A SMALL PLASTIC SNAKE
& A BIG TOY FROG

‘A Small Plastic Snake & A Big Toy Frog’ is a video that reinterprets a standard linguistic analysis tool—the Speech Accent Archive—through the voices of 12 non-native English speakers. In the video, the hidden architecture of speech is isolated: words dissolve, leaving only vowels pulsing on a black screen. Stripped of context, language becomes a […]