21 February 2025 - Museum Plantin-Moretus
With International Mother Language Day in mind, Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp is collaborating with the Museum Plantin-Moretus, the Plantin Institute of Typography and Stadscanvas, a section for artistic newcomers within Fameus vzw. During our trajectory, we organized different moments of (artistic) exchange between users of different languages, scripts and from within different positionalities.
The hegemony of the Latin script and the English language displaces other languages and scripts. This over-representation comes with a selective and biased knowledge creation and dissemination that exclude other (sources and fields of) knowledge, values, world views, ethics and aesthetics. This had major implications in both analogue and digital contexts, in socio-political contexts, in the world of art and research, and of course in the personal lives of many.
In this cross-sectoral collaboration we explored different formats where we shared languages, scripts, expertise and creativity. We aim to become more aware of language and script injustice, and develop educational, museum, design, art and social practices that are sensitive to the challenges of our multilingual and multiscript realities, including questioning canons, curricula, sources and methods.
We welcome you for our public program on 21st of February in the museum. You can engage with the installation of ARIA PhD-researcher Garine Gokceyan ‘Missing Books’ on West-Armenian script, see some work of students of St Lucas, participate in a workshop Perso-Arabic calligraphy, follow a printing demonstration, a show & tell, … and add your own language experiences.
Full programme at https://museumplantinmoretus.be/nl/internationale-dag-van-de-moedertalen (in Dutch)
With the support of Global Engagement, University of Antwerp