WORD DIRT
‘24
digital, historic and field research
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an interventive installation for existing exhibitions
to create awareness for the tone of language that we’re surrounded by
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intro tapestry before entering an exhibition
app to scan and alter words live in an AR world while in the exhibition
outro tapestry and stand with receipts printer at the
exit of the exhibition.
digital, historic and field research
-
an interventive installation for existing exhibitions
to create awareness for the tone of language that we’re surrounded by
-
intro tapestry before entering an exhibition
app to scan and alter words live in an AR world while in the exhibition
outro tapestry and stand with receipts printer at the
exit of the exhibition.
This project was a result of a research rooted in the benin bronzes and the invasion of the British in Benin City in 1897.
This research led to a process of analyzing texts and sources that all described the event with a slightly different tone.
The meaning of words started to become relative to their language.
The fact that this story was almost solely told in English started to reveal a noticeable bias.
How can collective bias reveal a more rounded picture of colonial historic stories?
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a.1 - 2 ( analyzed transcription of David
Attenborough’s 1975 television series The Tribal Eye
Word dirt provides a (literal) critical lens for looking at the way colonial historic stories are told to future generations.
The way sources are presented to us as young people learning about our heritage, affects how we relate ourselves to it. Words and language are the medium that hold the power of these stories.
Those words matter.
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a.3 ( intro tapestry, placed before entry of exhibition
a.4 ( outro tapestry, placed after exit of exhibition
a.5 ( receipt printer, paired with outro tapestry after exit of exhibition
a.6 ( mock-up web application
a.4 ( outro tapestry, placed after exit of exhibition
a.5 ( receipt printer, paired with outro tapestry after exit of exhibition
a.6 ( mock-up web application