TYPP
Sound contribution ‘Do you want to come walk with me’ ?
2025 (Release)
“A special edition of TYPP, the journal for artistic research of Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerpen.
This issue was developed within the Advanced Master of Research in Art and Design (AdMa), in the framework of the 2022–23 ShareResearch module.
AdMa, like many international higher-education programs in Europe, is taught in English and requires all candidates to either be native speakers or have a language certificate at level B2 or higher to apply. In the context of this study program, English is used as a tool to enable participants, tutors and support staff to talk, write, read, look and socialise via a shared language. English’s current status as the go-to shared communication tool, however, is shaped by colonialism, capitalism and the domination of the UK and the USA as central locations of power.
This proliferation, however, also results in the language shifting, mixing, being appropriated and creatively reused. In AdMa, we refer to our shared language as ‘Englishes,’ to acknowledge, appreciate and celebrate the multiple and multiplying ways we all use the language and to make space for the care we need to extend to each other when we (try to) communicate. ‘Non-standard’ or ‘alternative’ forms of English are sometimes referred to as ‘broken English,’ and are spoken all over the world as an everyday, mundane relational reality and as an assertion of the specifics of local identity. In this sense, broken English describes the proliferation of alternative realities for the language, but it can also tell of the resistance to lingering, centralized forms of empire.”
Text by Marnie Slater
Graphic Design by Joud Toamah
Sound mixing by Alec De Bruyn
My contribution (starts at 02:43) consists of an audiofile researching the volatility of a protest and, as the overarching title for my AdMa research project in general, is called “Do you want to come walk with me?”
