The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes
Period
2020.2.27.~ 8.30.
Venue
Nam June Paik Art Center 2F
Curator
Yoonseo Kim (Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center)
Collaborate Curator
Hyunjeung Kim (Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center)
Artists
Angelica Mesiti, Jaye Moon, Jesse Chun, Ji Hye Yeom, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Lek, Juho Lee & Juseung Lee, Woojin Kim
Organized and
Hosted by
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The exhibition The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes examines language as spoken and written, as body and mind, as the corporeal and the conceptual, and as systems and cultures. The eight artists explore the phenomena of plunder and extinction of language in the neoliberal society, the relations in understandings and misunderstandings as well as the diversity of nonverbal communications happening outside of letters. At the same time, they reveal the hierarchy and alienation created by the dominant language and the power of language directly connected to human rights as a tool for survival. The exhibition evokes these issues that permeate our everyday life, and thereby sheds new light on the reality and diversity of language, invisible but present.
“Who am I and what will I be like?” Starting from the question of a tongue asking its own whereabouts, the exhibition ultimately seeks to recognize the existence that is different from oneself. Do our anxieties really come from other beings, other species and other languages? Would the anxieties be dispelled if we had only one tongue left in the future? We hope art will be able to bring some comfort to people in these difficult times.
“Who am I and what will I be like?” Starting from the question of a tongue asking its own whereabouts, the exhibition ultimately seeks to recognize the existence that is different from oneself. Do our anxieties really come from other beings, other species and other languages? Would the anxieties be dispelled if we had only one tongue left in the future? We hope art will be able to bring some comfort to people in these difficult times.
■ Exhibits
![1_문재원](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/1_문재원.jpg)
The Wizard of Oz, 2020, lego, soho bricks, 358x307cm, commissioned by Nam June Paik Art Center
![2_이주호 이주승](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/2_이주호-이주승.jpg)
Two Different Eyes, 2020, single-channel video, 10min 50sec, commissioned by Nam June Paik Art Center
![3_제시천_침묵을말한다그리고](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/3_제시천_침묵을말한다그리고.jpg)
enunciating silence and, 2019, graphite, silicone, wood, paint, steel trestles, dimensions variable
![4_제시천_무성자음](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/4_제시천_무성자음.jpg)
voiceless consonants, 2019, two-minute sound, airport speaker, steel bracket, amp
![6_로렌스렉](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/5_제시천_학습지.jpg)
WORKBOOK, 2018, single-channel video, 7min 24sec
![6_로렌스렉](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/6_로렌스렉.jpg)
Geomancer, 2017, single-channel HD video, 48min 15sec, courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.
![7_염지혜](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/7_염지혜.jpg)
Current Layers: The Manner of a Photoshopping Life, 2017, moving image, 12min 16sec
![8_김우진_완벽한합창](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/8_김우진_완벽한합창.jpg)
The Perfect Harmony, 2019, four-channel HD video, 5min 12sec
![9_김우진_한국어받아쓰기](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/9_김우진_한국어받아쓰기.jpg)
Korean Dictation Test: You will have to answer questions what you hear, 2019, four-channel HD video, 5min 26sec
![10_로렌스아부함단](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/10_로렌스아부함단.jpg)
Disputed Utterance, 2019, 14 laser-cut dioramas, c-prints mounted on cardboard with wooden cases, 7×10×6cm, courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut / Hamburg
![11_안젤리카메시티](http://njp.ggcf.kr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/11_안젤리카메시티.jpg)
The Colour of Saying, 2015, three-channel HD video, colour, sound, 25min, courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
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