{"id":27623,"title":"My Name is Language","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2018-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":128,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artist","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003ePerformance \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Language (Mijn Naam is Taal) \u003c/em\u003e\u0026ndash; Nicoline Van Harskamp\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n27.09.2020\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nM\u0026nbsp;HKA, Antwerpen | auditorium\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":63,"permalink":"my-name-is-language","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/086/618/medium_500/MHKA_Monoculture_MijnNaamIsTaal_LRes-4279_copy.jpg?1662476094","cached_actor_names":"Nicoline van Harskamp","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Performance","nl":"Performance","fr":"Performance"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/086/617/large/MHKA_Monoculture_MijnNaamIsTaal_LRes-4239_copy.jpg?1662475859","poster_credits":"© Nicoline van Harskamp, 2020. Photo by Bram Goots","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"\u003cp\u003eNicoline van Harskamp\u0026rsquo;s performance \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Language\u003c/em\u003e takes place in a bureaucratic looking setting \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;a place where names are collected, filed, inflicted, withdrawn, and adapted. A storytelling session takes place between several people \u0026lsquo;waiting\u0026rsquo; among the audience members in the room. Their anecdotes are a synthesis of narratives the artist gathered through extended research and (group) interviews about the fate of personal names in multilingual and migratory contexts. The stories are brought together and fictionalised into a script, that provides the basis for an immersive performance, in the course of which it becomes clear that names are not always bound to their owners. We learn that names and naming traditions can cross cultural boundaries in ways that most other words cannot, but they can also suffer damage along the way. Mispronounced, garbled and even replaced completely with something more acceptable to the dominant culture, they can start to lead a life of their own. In the performance, names appear in spoken, written and translated forms, and nobody speaks the same language or variety of a language.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa repr\u0026eacute;sentation de Nicoline van Harskamp \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Language\u003c/em\u003e se d\u0026eacute;roule dans un d\u0026eacute;cor d\u0026#39;apparence bureaucratique, un lieu o\u0026ugrave; les noms sont collect\u0026eacute;s, class\u0026eacute;s, inflig\u0026eacute;s, retir\u0026eacute;s et adapt\u0026eacute;s. Une session de narration a lieu entre plusieurs personnes \u0026laquo; qui attendent\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; parmi les membres du public dans la salle. Leurs anecdotes sont une synth\u0026egrave;se de r\u0026eacute;cits que l\u0026#39;artiste a rassembl\u0026eacute;s \u0026agrave; travers des recherches approfondies et des entretiens (de groupe) sur le sort des noms de personnes dans des contextes multilingues et migratoires. Les histoires sont rassembl\u0026eacute;es et romanc\u0026eacute;es dans un script qui fournit la base d\u0026#39;une performance immersive, au cours de laquelle il devient clair que les noms ne sont pas toujours li\u0026eacute;s \u0026agrave; leurs propri\u0026eacute;taires. Nous apprenons que les noms et les traditions de d\u0026eacute;nomination peuvent traverser les fronti\u0026egrave;res culturelles d\u0026#39;une mani\u0026egrave;re que la plupart des autres mots sont incapables de faire, mais qu\u0026#39;ils peuvent \u0026eacute;galement subir des dommages en cours de route. Mal prononc\u0026eacute;s, d\u0026eacute;form\u0026eacute;s et m\u0026ecirc;me compl\u0026egrave;tement remplac\u0026eacute;s par quelque chose de plus acceptable par la culture dominante, ils peuvent se mettre \u0026agrave; mener leur propre vie. Dans la repr\u0026eacute;sentation, les noms apparaissent sous forme parl\u0026eacute;e, \u0026eacute;crite et traduite, et personne ne parle la m\u0026ecirc;me langue ou la m\u0026ecirc;me vari\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; de langue.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe performance \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Language\u003c/em\u003e van Nicoline van Harskamp vindt plaats in een bureaucratisch ogende setting: een plek waar namen worden verzameld, gearchiveerd, opgedrongen, ingetrokken en aangepast. Er vindt een vertelsessie plaats tussen verschillende \u0026#39;wachtende\u0026#39; mensen die zich onder de toeschouwers in de ruimte bevinden. Hun anekdotes zijn een synthese van verhalen die de kunstenares verzamelde via uitgebreid onderzoek en (groeps)interviews rond hoe het persoonsnamen vergaat in meertalige en migrerende contexten. De verhalen worden bij elkaar gebracht en gefictionaliseerd tot een script, dat de basis vormt van een immersieve performance. Daarin wordt duidelijk dat namen niet altijd aan hun eigenaars gebonden zijn. We leren dat namen en naamgevingstradities culturele grenzen kunnen overschrijden op manieren die bij meeste andere woorden niet mogelijk zijn, maar dat ze onderweg ook schade kunnen oplopen. Ze kunnen een eigen leven gaan leiden: verkeerd uitgesproken worden, verminkt en zelfs volledig vervangen door iets dat acceptabeler is voor de dominante cultuur. In de performance verschijnen namen in gesproken, geschreven en vertaalde vorm, en niemand spreekt dezelfde taal, noch dezelfde vari\u0026euml;teit van \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n taal.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}