Akershus Kunstsenter
Opening: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Andrea Bakketun, Sara Christensen, Nils Norman, Slavs and Tatars, Allyce WoodWhat are the structures that languages carry? How can we understand them, their phenomena, expressions and effects? Language does not exist without context, but what if those are challenged? The artists explore existing vocabularies by creating new language visualisations through physical, private, collective, digital, political, geographical and structural means. The show encourages a revisionary understanding of language, its experience, its intrinsic cognitive value, and art's role in this.