Thais Akina Yoshitake Lopez
archieven - artistiek onderzoek - installatie - taal - Diaspora
I am interested in the materiality of language and the indirect forms of communication that resist or are hindered by a metric based on the efficacy and transparency of information transmission. By indirect, I mean the manners of meaning, the rustles of translations’ leftovers, the reimagined accents and timbres and the unheard mother tongues. My work is grounded on the conviction that communication holds a certain richness that demands us to bear with opacities and contradictions.
How can I hold space for encounters with what is unknown or non-legible to my constant spatial re-orientation in language, or could I rehearse listening as imaginative gestures to create conditions for liminal collisions of understandings?