New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
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New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
We look at them with a lesser hold than we do things that sit in formal archival structures. But, understanding that all of these things are intertwined and that there are ways of honoring bodies of knowledge that don’t fit into the archive has always been important. This project tries to draw on that concept, and on archives that exist within phys... See more
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
I was thinking about how in every language, the dog bark sound is expressed differently. In English you say, “Woof, woof.” In some Asian languages, they say, “Mong, mong.” To think that to someone’s ear, depending on their geography, but also their tongue, that sound is completely different, also tells you that from that worldview, perspective gene... See more
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
. If we think of these compositional styles in relation to worldviews, I think these are also cultures that are able to hold many different truths or many different ways of being—occurring at the same time.
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
I am interested in forms and systems that exist in our context that are actually far ahead of the systems of archiving that we’ve been conditioned into. And thinking about things that are digital is often so interesting because there’s alignment within what is hybrid, shifting, evolving, and mutating. Or that are ritual, oral, aural, to something t... See more
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
“The desire to think about other forms of archive, and other ways of holding knowledge, has always been embedded in my work, whether that’s in a lived space, whether it’s in land. Land is also an archive. Dust. Recipes. Songs and stories.”
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
our forms of articulation are limited—we can only see and think through what’s possible with the language we have to articulate it. Once we expand on that language, we can produce entirely different worlds.
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
position of learning and dialogue, as opposed to a position of expertise.
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
it will build and grow a deeper network of bodies of knowledge that are coming from places of difference, so that we can seed and see different pathways and other worlds.