unit4

Language as gatekeeping. Social dialect. How people are degraded for the way they speak. There is no right or wrong way to speak. Could be interesting if we are looking more on social borders. Looking at different languages.

The semiotic of language. What kind of associations we have with thinking. Trees are also thinking about how to adapt. We all speak very differently.

Objectivity of english. We all dont really express ourselves in that language.

Fuck objectivity, fuck english.

Beauty in miscommunication

Vanja Rukavina
https://www.hnt.nl/voorstellingen/2342/
Vanja_Rukavina_Het_Nationale_Theater_in_coproductie_met_Zaal_4A/LANGUAGE/

Esperanto

English as language of objectivity

English not official language of the EU

What happens when we meet each other from our subjectivities? Instead of meeting each other in the centre, in the objective english language.

“We are transformed, individually, collectively, as we make radical creative space which affirms and sustains our subjectivity, which gives us a new location from which to articulate our sense of the world.” - bell hooks

I want to focus on making subjectivities heard. Speaking is required for that. Language is important for that. Images put on display what? Our bodies without our voice. What happens when you hear us without seeing us? When you hear us when you see yourself? Mirrors and sounds? Where can you see yourself without a mirror? Where do you recognize yourself? Is it in an objective or subjective place? Is it in a marked or unmarked place? Is there an unmarked place even? How do we inhabit the marked?

What happens when we reject objectivity and English?

Franziska:
For better understanding of what a data set could tell you, I looked into the data set of an extensive survey of the Finnish youth. It asked in very detailed ways about the condition of the youth. I focused on the perception of marginalization (starting on page 30 of the PDF), as this fits well with the in Unit 3 discussed othering.
The data set made the understanding of each number relatively easy. But because it isn't in a calculation sheet, like many other data sets are, the data is more difficult to further process.

https://services.fsd.uta.fi/catalogue/FSD2973?study_language=en

Yusser:
voice recordings
data sets

Franziska:
The intersection between borders, violence and speech is wherever language is used to enforce discord between people. The definition of the “other” is used to punish the othered people by excluding them from society. Speech can be used to divide people, and with their strength minimized, exert power over them.
The most defining phrase for this intersection are “illegal people”. A very clear border has been drawn to strip people of their rights and power. Being illegal is likely the highest level of being othered in a space, society etc. Being the other means being without societal power and being vulnerable to said society.

Think about: borders - speech - violence.
Write about the intersection between these three. What specifically do we want to explore?

I want to record stories in iraqi
Stories from my grandma and father mostly because they are my source of history

Documenting living history

My homeland exists in the stories of my father.
There it lives. It is alive as long as he is.

Yusser:

Borders - speech - violence - intimacy - recognisable sound of someone’s voice

Borders can be both violent and safe. Letting people ‘touch’ us is a very powerful act. Boundaries keep that act from happening. This touch can be a violent touch, but there is also violence in not touching. There is violence in separation. What kind of violence is this? What is the. Violence of separation? What is the violence of individualisation? What is the violence of personal boundaries? The violence of the denial of intimacy. The denial of togetherness. The denial of care. The denial of the WE. The fragmentation of the WE.

There is something intimate in a voice. There is something intimate in speech. A voice can be soothing and gentle. Listening to a story by your grandma is an intimate moment.

Asking people to send us voice recordings of their stories
Creating an archive of voices, of spoken stories

Storytelling using voice, using the personal.