13 Mar 2019 | Anna Witt – Kunsthalle Osnabrueck | EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
“Under the title “WILD GRAMMAR”, the 2019 festival will address the question of the transformative power of language. We understand language in the broadest sense as verbal and non-verbal codes. Language creates our image of the world, shapes our interaction with it and with each other. It is never only a description of what is, but it also enables us to contradict and resist a status quo. Artistic languages in particular have repeatedly worked against the simplification and consolidation of our image from reality on: They have consciously produced (non)sense, cultivated contradictions, turned hierarchies upside down and invented new codes that allow us to see and experience the world in a different way: “wild grammar” as counter-speech and attempted liberation strike…”
