Audio-visual Art

PLANT OF BABEL

migration digital art landscape
artistsJakub Nepraš
place_Neurčené město
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migrationdigital artlandscape
cameraJakub Nepraš
soundJakub Nepraš
editingJakub Nepraš
categoryAudio-visual Art
published7. 8. 2007
languageČesky / English
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PLANT OF BABEL
Minh Thang Pham
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.