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- Artist
- Anouk Kruithof
- Title
- Universal Tongue
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 4 h
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
- Edit: Ieva Maslinskaitė
- Sound: Karoliina Pärnänen
In the large-scale research project "Universal Tongue" (2018 - 2021), the Dutch artist Anouk Kruithof analyzes dance as a global cultural phenomenon, through the exploration of videos and clips found on the internet.
With her team of fifty-two researchers – assistants, she has been able to compile 8,800 films representing the diversity of cultures through dance. The ongoing loop of moving image erases typical categories of the world order, such as country, continent or culture. Instead, it looks at our era of fluidity, hybridity, and non-stop connectedness, respecting the value of our historical backgrounds, cultural differences, and individuality. 3 The installation version of the work, consisting of 8 four-hour videos projected simultaneously, has been shown around the world and recently at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. At Loop Art Fair we present the new four-hour monoband video Universal Tongue.
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