Parole #2: phonetic skin

Salon für Kunstbuch 21er Haus
Matinée

Buchpräsentation | Performance
mit Annette Stahmer und Friedrich Tietjen
Musikalische Begleitung: Die klingende Bildserviette und andere Raritäten
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PAROLE #2: PHONETIC SKIN / PHONETISCHE HAUT
Annette Stahmer (ed.)
Salon Verlag, Cologne (in cooperation with Errant Bodies Press, Berlin/Los Angeles), 2012
112 pages + CD with sound examples

PAROLE #2 is the second issue of a series of publications investigating the materiality of language. Parole #2: Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut is concerned with skin and its relation to language. The term “skin” is used here as a metaphor. It represents the surface, the protective sheath of not only the human but also of other “bodies” like the walls of a house, a product’s packaging, the earth’s surface, and so on. Skin describes the boundary between within and without, and is simultaneously a sensitive instrument for communication, directing external information inwards, as well as outwardly expressing inner states. “Phonetic Skin” is a poetic term serving as a starting point for a discussion on the connection between communication/language and skin.

18 international theorists, artists and designers present projects in “Phonetic Skin” which illuminate various aspects of this theme, including voice phenomena, talking drums, dermographism, clothing, as well as works on gardens, graffiti, and book bodies.