I replaced a speech of thanks with a performance. When it was my turn to speak, a member of the audience, Iksra Blagoeva, approached and filled my mouth with liquid plaster using a spoon. I attempted to scream ‘thank you’ as the plaster hardened inside my mouth. When it became an object that no longer allowed me to articulate, I spat it out and finally screamed ‘thank you.’ My mouth was then filled again with liquid plaster. The same action was repeated with the words ‘please’ and ‘sorry.’

Three glass sculptures are cast from the spat-out words ‘please,’ ‘thank you,’ and ‘sorry,’ accompanied by a looped three-channel video installation documenting my mouth filled with them and repeatedly attempting to articulate and expel them.