Festival / Evening
Mica Gherghescu
Mythopoeia
20 Feb 2013
The event is over
Languages invented by artists are eccentric creations and a special case in the lengthy mediation of genres between text, sound and image. Linguistic imagination is crystallised in forms of experimental, complex and polyphonic literature, oscillating between the « désécriture » (non-writing) of Camille Bryen and the « penguin speech » of Asger Jorn. Attached to a universalising conception of language being able to permeate all areas of the world, through its supposedly total communicability, these creations become tools for forward-looking creative thinking. As a category-specific craze, they join the major language utopia projects that have inflamed “creative” minds across the ages. Through the presence of a lawgiver-author, they convey a kind of messianism of the inventor. Genetically, they lay claim to poetry, music and image to then be recomposed in hybrid objects. When brought to the stage, they return to the spoken word and the performativity of the inspired language and conduct a true archaeology of language and image.
A lecture by Mica Gherghescu, Art Historian
Languages invented by artists are eccentric creations and a special case in the lengthy mediation of genres between text, sound and image. Linguistic imagination is crystallised in forms of experimental, complex and polyphonic literature, oscillating between the « désécriture » (non-writing) of Camille Bryen and the « penguin speech » of Asger Jorn. Attached to a universalising conception of language being able to permeate all areas of the world, through its supposedly total communicability, these creations become tools for forward-looking creative thinking. As a category-specific craze, they join the major language utopia projects that have inflamed “creative” minds across the ages. Through the presence of a lawgiver-author, they convey a kind of messianism of the inventor. Genetically, they lay claim to poetry, music and image to then be recomposed in hybrid objects. When brought to the stage, they return to the spoken word and the performativity of the inspired language and conduct a true archaeology of language and image.
A lecture by Mica Gherghescu, Art Historian
When
From 7pm
