Calender
Residency
24.02.-12.03.2025
OPEN STUDIO
March 8 + 9
from 12:00 to 18:00
曰falin’downtha耳h門o口門les
DAWOON PARK & SERYUN YANG
The last art residency of the 2024/25 season at Re Capitulating. queer will be about speaking (to each other), (not) understanding each other and the omnipresent processes of translation—between different languages, between drawing, writing and speaking.
From February 24, Dawoon Park and Seryun Yang will address these questions in their project 曰falin'downtha耳h門o口門les, and that means, from literal sense to the materiality of the letters, it will be about h門o口門les, the 'holes' into which meanings can—indeed must—fall, in the vastness of what is spoken and thought and under an 'untranslatable' title. Who is afraid of holes?
In the words of the two artists: "During the Re Capitulating.queer art residency and intermissions, two engage in conversations in Korean, their mother tongue, sharing and reflecting on their experiences with language. These dialogues are recorded, translated, and examined, unfolding through cycles of speaking and listening, expressing and receiving. In this process, meaning is both captured and lost, continuously shifting within the act of exchange.
Translation here is not merely the transfer of words but a process of re-capitulating—where meaning is not simply repeated, but actively restructured and reinterpreted, sometimes subverting, sometimes resisting the pull toward sameness that strips language of its particularity. Speech becomes text, text transforms into images, or takes on forms that were unimaginable. Meaning is constantly reconfigured yet never fully fixed. Reproduction is not a perfect replication but a fragmented trace—an incomplete record where language both appears and disappears. This project explores translation as an ongoing negotiation between capture and failure, questioning how meaning is shaped, transformed, and inevitably altered through cycles of listening, speaking, and writing.