_Code-Switching, Body-Snatching_ | Triëdere bei diffrakt
ことばが、果物だったらどんなにいいだろう。
実になるまで待って、それまで、葉が繁って、つぼみがつぶれないようにときどき様子をみて、花になると開いた世界をよろこんで、花びらのあとは、生まれ変わりの、青い実が熟すのを待っている。
ひとつの単語が、動詞が、副詞感嘆詩イディオム言語第二言語
歯をくぐりぬけて体内から溢れ出るまで、話す人を待つことができたらいいのに。
急ぎすぎる人生。すぐに知りたがAddiction。
何日でも、何ヶ月でも,何年でも、君のことを待っている。その口からあらわれる、音を、意味を、摩擦を、声を、楽しみに、待っている。
5月25日，2024
living library of becomings
I participate in the exhibition living library of becomings in Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ).
living library of becomings
March 1 – April 10, 2024
Opening: Thursday, February 29, 7 pm
Opening times: Wed – Sat 14:00-18:00
and by appointment (info@vbkoe.org)
Paloma Ayala, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Kyungrim Lim Jang & Hannah Sakai, Tina Omayemi Reden, Salma Shaka, Kanako Tada, Sophie Utikal, Volume Archive, and diverse publishing practices
Curated by Miwa Negoro
Exhibition design by Shi Yin
living library of becomings is a group exhibition derived from a performative library project dedicated to multiple narratives of intersectional, decolonial, queer feminist spirits. It draws inspiration from influential writings, Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE, and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic that challenge the binary confines of destructive colonial modernity to transcend geopolitical, linguistic, and spiritual boundaries while nurturing an emancipatory power from within. Weaving together the resonating voices, the exhibition features the works that explore the shape-shifting bodies of water, thoughts, languages, and feelings as the fluid, transformative agency. It embraces the margin, the liminal, and its relation as an assemblage, recognizing the affects of proximity, displacement, and (dis)orientation in the moment of grief, loss, and liberation.
living library of becomings is a portal of encounters, bridging the past, and the present, to the future of intergenerational and transcultural feminist imaginations. Taking a library, as a living archival practice of voices, it transfers and shares the process of (un)becoming through knowing, listening, and touching, as something plural. The visitor is invited to spend their time reading a selection of textual materials from the library, including various artistic zines and collective publishing practices. During the exhibition, the space will be activated by a talk, performative interaction, somatic reading session, and reading performance.
The library includes the selection from VBKÖ Archive, Kunstraum Niederösterreich Library, VOLUMES Archive, and Mai Ling Library.
The performative library started in 2020, and its research phase is supported by the School of Commons (SoC), a community-learning space, located at the Zurich University of the Arts, in 2023-2024. The exhibition is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union.
Program:
Wednesday, March 13, 7 – 8:30 pm
Online talk “Decolonial Curatorial Practice as Collective Care
and Solidarity” by Kathy-Ann Tan
[Hybrid via zoom and onsite, in English]
Thursday, March 21, 7 – 8:30 pm
Activation “Preserving / Persevering: Food Containers”
by Salma Shaka
[in English]
Tuesday, March 26, 6 – 7:30 pm
Somatic Reading Session by Daliah Touré
[in English]
Sunday, April 7
Reading Performance of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Work by Auro Orso, with an Introduction by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt
[in German, English]
*Detailed information will be announced