Espen Sommer Eide – Selected Works


Espen Sommer Eide – artist/composer

THE SKOLT SAAMI LANGUAGE MEMORY PROJECT, entry #7


The magical properties of an archive

Dismembering the semiotic, communicative from the phonetic, lexical aspect of language opens up a possibility for magical correspondences. The onomatopoetic, the alphabetic, the mimetic. The mysterious shapes of individual letters, the picture puzzle of the word. Language becomes an archive of non-sensuous similarities ready for the reader that connects the dots. The reader then becomes a bearer, a medium for the magical aspect of a shadow language.

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