EXHIBITIONS / THE FOREIGNNESS OF LANGUAGE

01.03.2012 to 31.03.2012

This self portrait, performance video piece draws on the artists efforts to learn Norwegian to explore how second language acquisition influences and disrupts identity. 

Learning a language is about learning to participate in a culture. The process of learning a second language involves adapting and adjusting to knowing- or not knowing oneself in an unfamiliar language. The foreignness of language investigates the duality of having two languages sitting inside oneself and as a result having ones identity in a constant state of flux.

This video examines the tension of being caught between two languages represented by the experiences on the body as a metaphor for the repercussions on a sense of self.

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