»Let it matter what we call a thing.«
After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay »Bad Words« and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, and the second season took us into the darkness with Etel Adnan’s »Living by Night«, the latest episode of Bad Words gathers different writers and artists around the poem »LOOK« by Solmaz Sharif. »LOOK« challenges us to confront the ways in which language can both oppress and liberate, urging us to interrogate our own relationship with words and their implications.
With contributions by Tanasgol Sabbagh, Moshtari Hilal, Ralph Tharayil, Nazanin Noori and Logan February
Music & Composition by Fabian Saul
BAD WORDS / SCHLECHTE WÖRTER
An audio series by Fabian Saul and Mathias Zeiske. In collaboration with Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature (CfL) and CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts
Presented by Das Wetter
Communication: Elinor Lazar
Graphics: Studio Yukiko
Translation: Lina Morawetz
Special Thanks: Jenni Bohn, Fabian Schöneich, Nan Xi, Karen Khurana
Schlechte Wörter / Bad Words is an audio series and sonic arts project. Collaborating with a dynamic ensemble of writers, artists and thinkers, the project endeavors to sculpt immersive sonic landscapes that probe the depths of linguistic expression. The series invites participants and listeners to traverse the thresholds of meaning, engaging with language in its rawest and most transformative forms. From talks, readings, voice messages, field recordings and music, a tactile space of multiple voices is created with changing guests. The agreement is: We begin with one text so a new one can arise.
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