Polyglot: Braille / Babel Babbles. Let's See?

The world is a multilingual tower of Babel; Brock is no different. We asked students and staff to write to us in the languages they use or like. We asked other students to translate their visual languages (photography, video, painting, objects, codes of all sorts) into a tactile language (braille, textile, animal/human contact). Our objective was to communicate pell-mell our feelings on poly-communication and, more importantly, to acknowledge and celebrate the babble of languages ? their silences, nonsenses and misunderstandings, their infinite nuances and innumerable accents. Linguistic, visual and tactile, ours is a long, diverse babble.

Curators: Duncan MacDonald (Visual Arts) and Catherine Parayre (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures).