IT GO HAVE TO ADJUST.
ON LANGUAGE AS PARASITE

IT GO HAVE TO ADJUST. ON LANGUAGE AS PARASITE is a series of exercises, research, exhibitions, and public programmes reflecting on the parasitic character of language and on the subversive power of laughter. Together with artists, writers, programmers, translators, scholars, activists and other thinkers, we endeavor to explore the theory that language is a parasite.

After the first research trip and collaboration with our partners Fankeena in Hargeysa, Somaliland, this summer, and the exhibition and INVOCATIONS chapter at SAVVY Contemporary this autumn, we let the waters carry us on: The second research chapter looks at water as a mode of transmission and takes places in collaboration with the Port of Spain-based art space Alice Yard. There, Walcott’s character Jackson in the play Pantomime, which influenced the project's concept, acts as a point of departure from which to explore motions over and in bodies of water that have contributed to the development of Creole.

Join us on 14.12.2023 for a lime in the yard & bring your thoughts, texts, vinyls! We are so grateful to our dear partners at Alice Yard for hosting and thinking with us through questions around language. Join us for a lime, postermaking and an open listening session — we‘ll set up a DJ booth hungry for the tunes you bring (digital or vinyl). Let‘s speak in tongues, in dreams, in rhythms, in riddles, in memories, in melodies…