Sounds of Babel
From June 7 to August 10, the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) presents its annual exhibition, Sounds of Babel. Centered on the theme of language, the exhibition explores how language鈥攁s a medium of communication鈥攃an generate diverse forms of imagination and discourse. Bringing together 22 artists and collectives from nine countries across Taiwan, Asia, and Europe, the exhibition uses the symbols, sounds, and meanings embedded in language as a point of departure. Through a range of perspectives, the participating artists investigate the power relations inherent in language and the complex, entangled conditions of identity it reveals.
Following the experimentation with the aesthetic potential of language in Heteroglossia鈥擫ecture Performance Gathering, C-LAB鈥檚 2025 annual exhibition, as the second episode of the Contemporary Art Platform鈥檚 annual program in 2025, is designed to uncover the momentum and signifying function hidden behind language. Such momentum covers diverse aspects, and the works in this exhibition span from the construction of national identity, traumatic experiences, narrative reenactment, cultural interpretation, and political propaganda around the end of the Second World War to the ethnic differences and gender identity in contemporary society. The participating artists鈥� works show us the underlying cultural phenomena and the milieus of their emergence, as well as the imaginations running wild due to the desire for understanding and dialogue.
Mikhail BAKHTIN treated the portmanteau term 鈥渉eteroglossia鈥� as a basic feature of culture, and the term 鈥減olyphony鈥� ergo symbolizes the diversity and pluralism of social/cultural languages. How can heterogeneous voices and narratives be heard/seen? In this world where the splitting of everything is accelerating, we are undergoing a transition period marked by great turmoil of geopolitics, ethnic awareness, and cultural values. This exhibition and the participating artists attempt to amplify these voices, inviting the viewers to immerse themselves along with the artists in the clamor of voices in which the potential for dialogue and common ground is to be recognized.
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From June 7 to August 10, the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) presents its annual exhibition, Sounds of Babel. Centered on the theme of language, the exhibition explores how language鈥攁s a medium of communication鈥攃an generate diverse forms of imagination and discourse. Bringing together 22 artists and collectives from nine countries across Taiwan, Asia, and Europe, the exhibition uses the symbols, sounds, and meanings embedded in language as a point of departure. Through a range of perspectives, the participating artists investigate the power relations inherent in language and the complex, entangled conditions of identity it reveals.
Following the experimentation with the aesthetic potential of language in Heteroglossia鈥擫ecture Performance Gathering, C-LAB鈥檚 2025 annual exhibition, as the second episode of the Contemporary Art Platform鈥檚 annual program in 2025, is designed to uncover the momentum and signifying function hidden behind language. Such momentum covers diverse aspects, and the works in this exhibition span from the construction of national identity, traumatic experiences, narrative reenactment, cultural interpretation, and political propaganda around the end of the Second World War to the ethnic differences and gender identity in contemporary society. The participating artists鈥� works show us the underlying cultural phenomena and the milieus of their emergence, as well as the imaginations running wild due to the desire for understanding and dialogue.
Mikhail BAKHTIN treated the portmanteau term 鈥渉eteroglossia鈥� as a basic feature of culture, and the term 鈥減olyphony鈥� ergo symbolizes the diversity and pluralism of social/cultural languages. How can heterogeneous voices and narratives be heard/seen? In this world where the splitting of everything is accelerating, we are undergoing a transition period marked by great turmoil of geopolitics, ethnic awareness, and cultural values. This exhibition and the participating artists attempt to amplify these voices, inviting the viewers to immerse themselves along with the artists in the clamor of voices in which the potential for dialogue and common ground is to be recognized.
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