Student Work: language
A Window onto Life’s Stage
Communication through language is an inescapable performance, Nietzsche tells us, and we’re all actors in it. The precarious question of how truth gets performed is loudly answered by the central characters of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To The Lighthouse."
The Woman Constructed
Language in Martha Rosler's "Semiotics of the Kitchen" and Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document"
The Mother-Son and State-Citizen Complex
Mary Kelly’s "Post-Partum Document" in Conversation with Susan Silton’s "A Potentiality Long After Its Actuality Has Become a Thing of the Past"
“It Is Important to Know the Names of Things”
Language in "The Awakening" and "Dept. of Speculation"
Outputs from print(dialogue)
"Isn't that scotland. / Don't blame the tweed. / You have never seen a fabric before. / I think it should be our fleece. / I appreciate fabric. / That is my fleece. / I am interested in having wool." A series of computer-generated mini plays.
A HERMENEUTICS OF THE TOURIST STATE
How might New Zealand’s expression of shared cultural heritage, and emphasis on multiculturalism, define the tourist state?
ISLAND MUSIC
"On balconies, in silence, my mind swaying with the music, / I’m thinking where does the ocean end and the sky begin? I’m thinking / when does the morning bus leave? I’m thinking how much for one more drink?"
THE LIFE OF PACHAS
"In Colombia, there’s a word we use, and none of us know what it means. This is a personal chronology as an attempt at an etymology."
THE WORD AS BOUNDARY
"When something is named, it’s perceived as a bounded entity placed within a stream of time, rather than a process." So how can language apprehend concepts of the infinite?
Sensorium
"My time in Normandy was engulfed in sound, and I constantly found myself comparing our loud, boisterous American voices to the low hum of French."