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WORD DIRT
07/2024


POOLSIDE
05/2024

HAVE YOU
EVER TILED
04/2024

CHAIN CHAIR10/2023


MIND YOUR
 BITS
02/2023

WORD DIRT

‘24
digital, historic and field research
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an interventative installation for existing exhibitions 
to create awarness for the tone of language that we’re surrounded by
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intro tapestry beforeentering an exhibition

app to scan and alter words live in an AR world during the exhibition 

outro tapestry and stand with receipts printer at the 
exit of the exhibition.

process

This project was a result of research that had its roots with the benin bronzes and the invasion of the British in Benin City in 1897. 
A research that led to a process of analyizing texts and sources that all described the event with a slightly different tone.

The meaning of words started to become relative to their language.
And the fact that this story was almost solely told in English started to reveal 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

outcome
Word dirt provides a (literal) critical lens for looking at the way colonial historic stories are told to coming 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 enter of an exhibition
a.4 ( outro tapestry, placed after exit of an exhibition
a.5 ( receipt printer, paired with outro tapestry after exit of an exhibition
a.6 ( mock-up web application