Co-curator Ken Yamamoto accompanies the tour through the exhibition BODY:LANGUAGE on the Day of the Open Monument. In written, visual and spoken language, the artist collective parallelgesellschaft negotiates the colonised body and its relationship to the ideological state apparatus of language.
The body precedes language: with eyes and ears, with hands and vocal chords. Language, meanwhile, not only describes the body. It inscribes itself into the body and continues to write it. Edits it according to the rules of the prevailing grammar. Shortens and reformulates it. Transcribes and catalogues its sound. Translates and breaks it down into its individual syntactic parts. Until the body, subjected to the grammars of foreign domination, threatens to turn from subject to object. In the rooms of the permanent exhibition at Burg Hülshoff, the exhibition KÖRPER:SPRACHEN enters into a dialogue with exhibits and visitors.
Die Ausstellung ist Teil des Projekts Schatten des Schattens: Sprache in (post)kolonialen Zeiten, einer Kooperation von Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature (CfL), der LWL-Kommission für Mundart- und Namenforschung Westfalens und dem Germanistischen Institut der Universität Münster, gefördert durch die LWL-Kulturstiftung im Rahmen von »POWR! Postkoloniales Westfalen-Lippe« und der Stiftung der Sparkasse Münsterland Ost.