Visa Students and Instructors featured in upcoming exhibition and on-line publication.

This exhibition features the work of a wide variety of writers and visual artists as well as a number of Brock Students and Faculty including: 

Josie Ament, Kristin Clancy, Nick Cowan-Nagora, Holley Corfield, Kevin Greene, Sonya Kloostera, Daniel F. Manchego-Badiola, Rebekah Steele, Joël Therrien, Shawndra White, Chantal Durand, Never Lopez, Marinko, Arnold McBay, Stephen Remus, Eric Schmaltz, Ramona Schnekenburger, Shawn Serfas, Eric Zboya, Gabrielle Bonifaci, TJ Charlton, Kate Mercer; Rachael Campbell; Megan Franklin; Elizabeth Ratko; Colleen M.; Jessica McQuiggin; Carla Cattafi; Jackie Woroniuk; Samantha Schmid; Stephanie Bogucki; Kate Hale; Ana Haljkevic; Ambika Sangaran; Catherine Parayre; Rodrigo León Cordero; Veronica Mercuri; Stéphanie Kaboré; Arthur Sarmento Furtado; Ramon Augusto Porto Beranger Vieira; Débora Boccolini Paiva; Axelle Mroz; Su Mi Lee; Joungzk Park; Brandon Garib; Lyne-Duchesse Iraduhaye ; Waleed AlBuri; Abdulmajeed Almaimani; Abdullah Aljasser; Abddulkader Alomari; Jody Wen; Le Wang; Zhao Ying; Yue Deng; Nabilah Alhaddad; Omar Sulaiman Alajaimi; Yinfeng Lu; Jin Xiufeng; Zhao Yang; Siming Chen; Wang Lu; Berta Ferenc A’ron; Wang Fan; Han Xu; Qili Luo; Faisal Suliman Aldemaiji; Linlin Zhang; Edison Chow; Anas Almaghrabi; John Shi; Jiayu Wang (Jady); Lisette Costanzo; Simon Yin; Jacob Braun; Nafée Faïgou; Mathew Piccirillo; Milke Frydryk; Sam Franchi.

"Polyglot: Braille / Babel Babbles. Let's See...,"
Rodman Hall on Friday 12 April 2013.
Reception 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

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. 65 artists participated in the project. Without counting variations and dialects, more than 30 (verbal) languages are represented:

Amerindian languages (South and North America), Arabic, Aurebesh, Cantonese, Classical Greek, Croatian, English, French, Gambaye, German, Gorane, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kinarwanda, Kincongo, Kirundi, Korean, Lingala, Mandarin, Occitan, Portuguese, Romani, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Theban, Tshiluba, Ukrainian, Zimmé.

According to the UNESCO, more than 3,000 languages on our planet are endangered and may disappear. We deplore this fact. We wish we could have included many more languages in this exhibit.

The curators of the exhibition are Duncan MacDonald (Visual Arts) and Catherine Parayre (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Brock University.