When language includes and excludes depending on who does and who does not speak, ‘at the end of the sentence, it rotted’ is a transforming sound installation that reflects upon the diasporic conditions of language.

Looking upon a history of constructed languages, the installation consists of abstractions of writing systems that together with a live soundscape are constantly transformed and turned into decay, as water is pumped in and reversed after 8 hours.

As an outsider of a language, any written or spoken words are purely strokes andphonetics; an asemic relation, when you are unable to grasp the meaning of words. Through bio-asemic rust and decay, ‘at the end of the sentence, it rotted’ searches for a language that includes all. It’s a return to a time of pre-linguistics, where sound andtouch are prominent. To return to a time before words became the dominant way of communicating.

About the Artist: Cecilie Fang is an anti-disciplinary artist and writer from China and Denmark currently based in The Hague. Her work is a continuous auto-ethnographic research, in which she researches power structures through and with language. She is interested in the diasporic conditions of language and what power lies behind literacy and the inability to speak. Through micro performances of materials and their organic processes, she meditates on alternative ways of languaging (looking upon meaning production as not fixed, but open-ended and process-oriented) and aims to create work exploring speculative linguistic ecosystems.