Say What?
If language is a virus from outer space, then the language-based pieces brought together in "Babel Babel (bā`bəl) [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. " (Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery (grid reference SP060866) is a modern art gallery, housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic, former Birmingham board school Oozells Street School (John Henry Chamberlain 1877), in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. , Birmingham, September to October) should provide a catalogue of its most virulent strains. Work by an international lineup of artists who work with the written word (including Ken Lum Ken Lum (b. 1956) is a Canadian artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art is conceptually oriented, and generally concerned with issues of identity , Xu Bing, and Shirin Neshat) promises to explore the unstable relations between language and identity; individual works' ingredients range from long-distance phone calls to mating pigs, touch-sensitive computer screens to papaya papaya (pəpī`ə), soft-stemmed tree (Carica papaya) of tropical America resembling a palm with a crown of palmately lobed leaves. trees, the Bible to Mein Kampf.
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