The Shapes of Language

November 2023

Editorial. The Shapes of Language

By Kaarin Kivirähk

The Shapes of Language

For art writers or magazine publishers, language is a day-to-day business. We use it to describe and mediate artists’ works, find new ways to formulate ideas or argue over clichéd art vocabulary. In this issue, we look at the relationship between language and art from a multitude of perspectives. An interview with curator Cecilia Alemani, who recently visited Tallinn, focuses on the role text plays in her curatorial approach and her views on writing and literature in gen…

Exhibition language is universal but often feels empty: Interview with Cecilia Alemani on text and language in curatorial practice

By Keiu Krikmann

Gender is a language, and it could be fun to play with if there wasn’t so much power and coercion attached to it. Interview with McKenzie Wark

By Gregor Kulla

We are still translated people

By Keiu Krikmann

We wanted to show entanglements instead of focusing on difference

By Keiu Krikmann

Organising against precarity

By Kaarin Kivirähk

Dreamers

By Ieva Rojūtė

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