If we are “participants in the future of our languages” (Ocean Vuong), how can we make space for more variants of influences in order to facilitate the right climate and conditions for subversive feminist, anti-racist and de-colonial practices within art and publishing? If language is there to make space for our survival, can we find procedures for optimising our communication to aid the creation of networks that can parasitize towards the proliferation and development of liberating practices? If language is a parasite as the writer Susan Blackmore contends, we need to evolve one that is made up of a plurality of voices that we wish to see act for a shared future. ![]() We are interested in how that parasite can be and is transmitted between systems that communicate without our influence. Together with artists, writers, programmers, translators, scholars, activists and other thinkers, we endeavor to explore the theory that language is a parasite. ![]() ON LANGUAGE AS PARASITE is a series of exercises, research, exhibitions, and public programmes reflecting on the parasitic character of language and on the subversive power of laughter.
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