Join artist Ana Teresa Fernández and Paul Farber, Director of Monument Lab, for a virtual conversation about language, loss, renewal, and reimagining monuments.
Ana Teresa Fernández’s SHHH, one of five monuments in Slow Motion at Grounds for Sculpture, engages with the climate crisis around languages on the verge of extinction. As sea level rise threatens to displace vulnerable communities on islands and coastlines, linguists believe that half of the 7,000 languages currently spoken around the world will cease to exist by the end of this century. Teresa Fernández’s SHHH creates an auditory intervention as wind rustles hundreds of gold mirrored disks, yielding an onomatopoeic interpretation of silence. An invitation to listen and gaze into a distorted reflection of the self and our surroundings, the monument encourages visitors to consider what can be done to avert the devastating loss of language.
The talk will be free but pre-registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent immediately after registering and an hour before the event. Closed captioning and translation services will be available via Zoom.
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Slow Motion is made possible by generous exhibition support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooke Barrie Art Fund, NRG Energy, and Julie and Michael Nachamkin. Support is provided in part by the Atlantic Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the NJ Department of State, and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by Holman.
