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VIS #15 – THEME: LANGUAGE/ LANGUAGED/ LANGUAGING

VIS Issue 15, LANGUAGE/ LANGUAGED/ LANGUAGING, was published on 19 March 2026. The issue contains eight contributions that in various ways center on language. Contributions that move with language or against it, and that approach language as a site for ethical and aesthetic experimentation and reflection. Editor is Tale Næss, co-editor Michael Duch.

The Annotated Garden & Compost

The Annotated Garden & Compost weave creative non-fiction and digital dramaturgy to meditate on garden pedagogies and ecological precarity, technological acceleration, and the entanglement of environmental and machinic systems.

Ektoras Arkomanis

passages in translation

This experiment began with the translation of a poem for a film set in the Eleonas refugee camp in Athens. The poem, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Athens, is a portrait of an enigmatic place on a summer evening, in times of uncertainty.

Sanna Svane

Random generator as restrictive and liberative force

The starting point for the exposition “Random generator as restrictive and liberative force – a study of letter combinations in Swedish licence numbers” is the usage of a random generator as a selection method for creativity.

Vanja Hamidi Isacson

FLER_SPRÅKIG TYSTNAD : MONI_KIELINEN HILJAISUUS : MULTI_LINGUAL SILENCE

This artistic research project introduces the concept of multilingual silence to describe the artificial monolingualism that characterizes many contexts in which national majority languages or English dominate...

Nora Rinne

Voicing language: approaching language through voice in intergenerational performance

The human voice has frequently been overlooked in discussions of language, knowledge, and research. Traditional notions of logos privilege silence, sight, and reading, thereby marginalizing the voice.

Svea Vikander

In the earth my berry lies/Maassa marjani makaa

This audio-visual essay documents the experience of translating personally traumatic material: sections of the 2023 Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report.

Eirunn Kvalnes

A poem is a small... machine made out of words

The exposition collects materials and reflections from ‘A poem is a small machine … made out of words’, an exhibition and series of writing sessions that were held at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2025.

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

Incompleting places – surrection and mirage making through topocosmological hypering

What happens when that which saturates the foreground is relegated to the background? And what emerges when we attend to what appears distant, yet at the same time remains strangely familiar?