Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Renee Lauzon

In Renee Lauzon’s sound installation “If We Are Two, They Will Have to Believe Us,” a table is set up at Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library as if in an interrogation room. One chair stands on either side, a pair of headphones in front of each chair, a ceiling light dangling above. The headphones play separate audio tracks, two sides of the same story of a violent incident. On one, listeners hear a woman discussing her experience bearing witness to violence. On the other, a man takes a distant tone as he talks violence statistics. According to an artist’s statement, Lauzon attempts to “reframe the experience of language and comprehension — questioning how much we can know of our experiences while they are happening … and how this process of thinking/feeling our experience shapes the ways we identify with the world.” November 1 through 30.