How can the experience of desire be transformed by commoning its languages?
How does the writing and speaking of desire reveal its more-than-personal, structural, and social dimensions?
How can we foster languages of desire as a way to search for a desirable world?
THE TEXT BITES ITS TONGUE is a trans-disciplinary collaborative research that seeks to investigate written and spoken languages of desire - understood as a messy field of ever changing coordinates in which sensuality, sexuality, intimacy and affect meet. At the centre of our research, language, the characteristics of its grammars, the comical and the attractiveness of text itself, play as much of a role as the visceral experience of what it seeks to describe and the unconscious which it fails to grasp. Inside the gap between physical experience and text, between the mouth and the tongue that it speaks, we look for a motor to feel into and de-personalize “private” experience and to uncover structures of feelings. We are curious about in which language can transform the sensual, restricted, and libidinous body, whereby working with and through pain and shame is one important layer.
footnotes
footnotes consist of Eliana Kirkcaldy, Johanna Ackva and Lotta Beckers. The collective researches languages of desire and investigates writing as a means to mess up, counterpoint and subvert (hetero)normative representations of love, intimacy and the erotic.
Johanna Ackva
Johanna (*1989) is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer and writer based between Berlin and the Uckermark region.