{"id":8158,"date":"2025-11-05T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labiennale.art.pl\/?post_type=wystawy&p=8158"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:16:58","slug":"liquid-tongues","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/labiennale.art.pl\/en\/wystawy\/liquid-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liquid Tongues<\/em> is an audio-video installation by Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski, in which the Ch\u00f3r w Ruchu [Choir in Motion], featuring both hearing and Deaf people, does interpretations of whale communication codes and songs \u2013 both in phonic English and international sign language (IS). The project seeks alternative modes of communication, inspired by more-then-human life.<\/p>\n

The axis of this story will be tales of loss and reconstruction \u2013 from the rebirth of whale cultures to contemporary attempts to restore marginalised languages and narratives of communication systems. The installation will operate on many levels: image (cinematography by Magda Mosiewicz), sound (composed by Aleksandra Gryka) and physical experience, through the acoustic waves. The collective choreography of the bodies of the choir is inspired by the movement of schools of fish (Alicja Czyczel).<\/p>\n

Deaf Gain understands the notion of deafness not as a disability, but as a separate culture and identity, offering new perspectives and forms of expression. The team creates a significant amount of its audio and video material in the water \u2013 an environment where Deaf people can freely communicate with sign language, while hearing people make distorted sounds. The boundary between air and water is a space for communication experiments \u2013 a mirror of sorts, where different languages, bodies and ways of sensing intersect.<\/p>\n

This project develops themes from Rebellion of the Deaf. Renewal<\/em> spectacle (Zach\u0119ta, 2025), where the artists explored the theme of communication and accessibility. That led to a community of hearing and Deaf, learning from each other despite their language differences and making works together in phonic and sign languages.<\/p>\n

The project was inspired by legendary recordings of Roger Payne, Songs of the Humpback Whale<\/em> (1970), which led to a ban on hunting whales and saved them from extinction. Their complicated sounds reminded the world of the intelligence and richness of animal culture, showing art could save voices that had not been heard.<\/p>\n

In the curatorial concept for Biennale 2026, based on the musical metaphor of \u2018minor keys\u2019, Koyo Kouoh extends an invitation to contemplatively encounter what is delicate and generally overlooked \u2013 the softer voices, neglected narratives, micro-memories. She encourages us to develop subtle forms of resistance, to create new relationships, sensitive experiments, to build polyphonic scores of mutually listening, feeling and resonating societies. Liquid Tongues<\/em> develops this idea, attempting to break through what we imagine to be the limits of communication and to create subjective communities, taking various perspectives into account. This proposed version of the future considers an animal perspective as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8164,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n