The Alphabet (Uyghur kril yéziqi) revisits Marcel Broodthaers’ Poèmes industriels, replacing the Latin alphabet with a Cyrillic one, one of three alphabets used for Uyghur in the 20th century. The...
The Alphabet (Uyghur kril yéziqi) revisits Marcel Broodthaers’ Poèmes industriels, replacing the Latin alphabet with a Cyrillic one, one of three alphabets used for Uyghur in the 20th century. The original exclamation of ‘OK!’ survives unscathed, despite the transmogrification from the secularized world of Latin.
Belonging to the Tranny Tease work series (2009-ongoing), the artwork examines alphabet politics and mistranslations by employing the 'wrong' or inappropriate script for a given text.