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Working against conditions of entrenched surveillance and a pervasive atmosphere of publicity, the artists included in Tender create cryptic linguistic forms and rituals of exchange: here, opacity becomes intimacy. Like a hand cupped around a single ear in a crowded room, alternative codes and linguistic forms suggest the possibility of speaking closely, ‘beneath the din’, as the poet Mary Ruefle has described it. Here, language is put in a blender, chopped and screwed, chewed and muddled, occluded in private symbologies, yet in each work there is an effort to communicate afresh. There is a focus on the materiality of languages – alphabets, mouths of tongues and teeth, systems of violent or strange designations – elements that are broken down and reconstituted. There is also a yearning, a drive towards a secondary or alternative way of communicating made on the ruins of archaic systems: an intimate, alternative language that might only be understood by a close-knit group, o…
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Working against conditions of entrenched surveillance and a pervasive atmosphere of publicity, the artists included in Tender create cryptic linguistic forms and rituals of exchange: here, opacity becomes intimacy. Like a hand cupped around a single ear in a crowded room, alternative codes and linguistic forms suggest the possibility of speaking closely, ‘beneath the din’, as the poet Mary Ruefle has described it. Here, language is put in a blender, chopped and screwed, chewed and muddled, occluded in private symbologies, yet in each work there is an effort to communicate afresh. There is a focus on the materiality of languages – alphabets, mouths of tongues and teeth, systems of violent or strange designations – elements that are broken down and reconstituted. There is also a yearning, a drive towards a secondary or alternative way of communicating made on the ruins of archaic systems: an intimate, alternative language that might only be understood by a close-knit group, o…
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