Name: Opening Reception: The Future We Speak
Start: 2023-03-17T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-03-17T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 107 Suffolk St

Opening Reception: The Future We Speak

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. (The Clemente) is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While The Clemente’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

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The Future We Speak is a group exhibition which attempts to investigate language as a living system and envisions a world not dominated by a

107 Suffolk St

Artists: Francisca Benítez; Adele Dipasquale; Giovanni Giaretta; -Cristina Gozzini, Mario Ramirez, Rebeca Pak and Wu Tianrou-; Laura Llaneli; Giulia Mangoni; Nicoline van Harskamp.The Future We Speak is a group exhibition which attempts to investigate language as a living system and envisions a world not dominated by a unique linguistic system.The dominance of a language only produces inequalities, disparities and doesn’t encourage international understanding since it depends on the concept of territory, ethnicity, and boundary. How to foster linguistic freedom and diversity? What are we willing to give up for a truly multilingual world? How to build new collective grammars?The international artists selected for The Future We Speak address language as “a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance or expressing love” (cit. Toni Morrison). They present linguistic inventions and junctures, tongue contaminations, polylingual positions and linguistic systems that resist translatability. In the exhibition, installations, videos, and photos feature generative word work activities and question how to transform our auditory and verbal sensibilities by embodying other words, sounds and signs belonging to the multilingual world we live in including non written form of interactions, languages based on signs and mimicry, and even nonsense exchanges.By advancing new linguistic prepositions that try to subvert, trouble, and undo the fixity of language, the exhibited works look for alternatives to linguistic dominance and reject any forms of linguistic imperialism which reduces identities to one nation and culture. The Future We Speak is thus, the occasion not only to engage with language as a complex, unstable and self-organized living system but also to imagine the future we speak by suggesting that the acts of listening, languaging, and signing can empower us and who is around us if understood as open-ended set of meanings.Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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