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Mute Melodies
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Abstract. Mute Melodies is a short tour through an artist’s work that investigates the boundaries of language and systems in research-based projects that are simultaneously sculptural and performative, and that articulates language as both excavated material and excavation technique. Or, alternatively, an artist’s journey through everyday matter: soap on the wash basin, ants in the garden, sugar on the kitchen table, keys in locks—language in the mouth.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-kett


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Christine Kettaneh (2020), “Mute Melodies,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 4, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 561–577.


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