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Abstract This essay explores media-related aspects of literariness in video art and examines them on the basis of spoken language - in particular, voice, its mediality and physical nature. Based on new cultural-studies approaches to the category and phenomenality of >voice<, works by the artists Jochen Gerz, Vito Acconci, Gary Hill, Korpys/Loffler, and Tracey Emin are considered. The literariness of video art proves to be a distinct and complex transmedial field; its investigation necessitates philological and media studies parameters alike.

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