Tongueless Mother Tongue
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"Tongueless Mother Tongue" is an experimental radio show on WORM exploring the intersection of language, voice, and technology, tracing the remnants of a voice—before it becomes language, before meaning takes shape. Through poetry readings, experimental music compositions, and music that combines ambient and electronic sounds, the show listens for what is erased or unheard. In each episode, women artists from diverse cultural backgrounds recite their own poetry, and the host explores the layers beneath their voices. Breaths, cries, and silences, often removed by digital voice processing, return as new resonances, quietly settling into the ears of the listener. The title is borrowed from the Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s book of the same name.
Ep.1 with Yedam Ann
Yedam Ann studied Fine Arts at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts, where she completed
her master class under Aernout Mik. Prior to that, she studied TV & Film as well as History at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She has presented solo exhibitions at, among others, Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul and the Wewerka Pavilion. Her works have been shown in venues such as Kunst im Tunnel Düsseldorf, IMPAKT Festival Utrecht, Ars Electronica Linz and Galerie Nord Berlin. In her installation and dramaturgical works, she explores persona and social pathways through commuting and various scales of movement, encountering landscapes of placelessness intensified by technology and infrastructure. She is interested in geographical and physical conditions producing differences, discrimination, and exclusion, and how these conditions might be reimagined.
Ep.2 with Julianne Chua
Julianne Chua is an artist, writer and researcher who focuses on transversal affinities across diasporas, with a particular interest in makeshift aesthetics, archival glitches and expanded kinships in art, poetry and music videos. She co-leads the project Forms of
Belonging: The Making and Unmaking of Transnational Identities Across Afro-Asian Diasporas in Berlin. Her work has been published in Afterglobe, Petua: Reminiscing Grandmother Tales and Superstitions, Kepulauan, Inheritance: An Anthology, The
Posthumanist and Soy & Zine, presented at Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Universität der Künste, CTM Festival and University of Oxford, and performed at NYU Abu Dhabi, Tasarım
Bakkalı and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. She is the founder and co-host of Mutfak on Refuge Worldwide and Oroko Radio.
Ep.3 with Brenda Alamilla
Brenda Alamilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig with Prof. Tina Bara and at the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin. Her work spans photography, performance, and writing, engaging with decolonial and feminist approaches. She investigates violence and its relation to power structures. Her work has been published by Der Greif and Magnum Photos, among others, and was exhibited
internationally at venues including Arcitun Gallery, Errant Sound, F/STOP Festival Leipzig,Haus Kunst Mitte, Spoiler Zone, Zentrale für Kunst, and ZK/U Berlin. In 2023, she co-curated Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths at ZK/U Berlin.
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