GLOSSOLALALA / Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Dilek Winchester ; curated by Selen Ansen
Publisher: İstanbul : Arter Publications , 2024Subject(s): Sanat, Sergiler, Sanatçılar -- Sergi rehberi
| Art, Exhibitions, Artists -- Exhibition guideDDC classification: 700 ANS General note: The exhibition titled GLOSSOLALALA presents individual works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Dilek Winchester, produced in different places and in different mediums. The exhibition brings these works together on common ground, through encounters and negotiations. It explores the possibilities of creating a space for common experience and building a polyphonic community by way of singular artistic practices. Centred around the issue of language, the works on display bridge language with sound, text, body and space.
GLOSSOLALALA, the title of this exhibition, is a neologism, an invented word. It is derived from the term “glossolalia”, which connotes the ability to speak in unknown and invented languages. While extending this specific use of language, usually reserved for rhythmic or poetic purposes, to a formal and existential level, the exhibition GLOSSOLALALA also addresses the differences which both divide and unite us through the agency of language. Imagining an outside-of-language within language itself, viewing language as a ground for play and production, breathing life and vitality back into words, the works deal with speech and words in the light of dominant language and linguistic violence, as well as concepts of noise, homogeneity, alienation and belonging. In the exhibition, stammering sentences, texts turned into raw sounds, words falling from ceiling to ground to be reassembled by visitors, choreographies that translate selected excerpts from the Ottoman Divan Literature into rhythm and body movements, letters that mediate the production of sculptural objects by connecting art and craft, and sculptures that embody a plurilingual community disturb the communicative function of language in order to inquire into various ways of forming a ‘we’.
GLOSSOLALALA is a continuation and materialisation of the digital conversation that took place between Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Dilek Winchester and art historian Glenn Peers on 12 May 2021. Organised by the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, this conversation was titled “Grafting the Hoped-for-We: Words as Autonomous Forces”. GLOSSOLALALA gathers under the same roof two sculpture series by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, presented under the common title I Bite My Nails to Reach a Softer Surface to the World, as well as the video series Choreographies on the Unread and two text-based installations titled Sharing the Same Breath and SSSSSAAA… by Dilek Winchester.
| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Exibition Guide | Arter Kütüphanesi Arter Kütüphanesi | Arter Kütüphanesi | 700 ANS 2024 (Browse shelf) | Available | 108215 |
The exhibition titled GLOSSOLALALA presents individual works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Dilek Winchester, produced in different places and in different mediums. The exhibition brings these works together on common ground, through encounters and negotiations. It explores the possibilities of creating a space for common experience and building a polyphonic community by way of singular artistic practices. Centred around the issue of language, the works on display bridge language with sound, text, body and space.
GLOSSOLALALA, the title of this exhibition, is a neologism, an invented word. It is derived from the term “glossolalia”, which connotes the ability to speak in unknown and invented languages. While extending this specific use of language, usually reserved for rhythmic or poetic purposes, to a formal and existential level, the exhibition GLOSSOLALALA also addresses the differences which both divide and unite us through the agency of language. Imagining an outside-of-language within language itself, viewing language as a ground for play and production, breathing life and vitality back into words, the works deal with speech and words in the light of dominant language and linguistic violence, as well as concepts of noise, homogeneity, alienation and belonging. In the exhibition, stammering sentences, texts turned into raw sounds, words falling from ceiling to ground to be reassembled by visitors, choreographies that translate selected excerpts from the Ottoman Divan Literature into rhythm and body movements, letters that mediate the production of sculptural objects by connecting art and craft, and sculptures that embody a plurilingual community disturb the communicative function of language in order to inquire into various ways of forming a ‘we’.
GLOSSOLALALA is a continuation and materialisation of the digital conversation that took place between Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Dilek Winchester and art historian Glenn Peers on 12 May 2021. Organised by the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, this conversation was titled “Grafting the Hoped-for-We: Words as Autonomous Forces”. GLOSSOLALALA gathers under the same roof two sculpture series by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, presented under the common title I Bite My Nails to Reach a Softer Surface to the World, as well as the video series Choreographies on the Unread and two text-based installations titled Sharing the Same Breath and SSSSSAAA… by Dilek Winchester.
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