{"id":1463,"date":"2023-08-16T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/?page_id=1463"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:38:09","slug":"2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Archive: Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 June \u2013 17 July 2016<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/about-the-exhibition\/\">About the exhibition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/events-and-dowloads\/\">Events and Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/curators-and-acknowledgments\/\">Curators and Acknowledgments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/ma-curating-2016-Website-banner-768x194-1.jpg\" alt=\"a banner with the text confusion of tongues\" width=\"768\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/ma-curating-2016-Website-banner-768x194-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/ma-curating-2016-Website-banner-768x194-1-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Utopia\u00a0<\/em>(1516), Thomas More imagines an apparently perfect island society in which citizens share a common language and way of life. It is a text riddled with ambiguities, paradoxes and verbal games: \u2018utopia\u2019 itself translates as both \u2018no-place\u2019 and \u2018good-place\u2019. The book has repeatedly frustrated readers\u2019 attempts to decipher its message.\u00a0<em>Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language<\/em>\u00a0brings into dialogue artists who \u2013 in ways similar to More \u2013 explore the power of language to complicate and withhold meaning. As viewers, we are invited to imagine through and beyond the spoken and written word, to think and re-think, to look and look again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1481 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640-1024x837.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640-1536x1256.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/G-1978-PG-88-7-png-9640.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oskar Kokoschka, Dialogues part of the publication The Dreaming Youths, 1907, lithograph, 28.6 x 24 cm. The Courtauld Gallery. \u00a9 The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London\/DACS 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1483\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Susan-Hiller-Image-1024x447-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Susan-Hiller-Image-1024x447-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Susan-Hiller-Image-1024x447-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Susan-Hiller-Image-1024x447-1-768x335.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Hiller, Midnight, Baker Street, 1983, c-type photographs on Agfa Lustre paper 3 \u00bd, 3 parts, each 71 x 51 cm. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. \u00a9 Susan Hiller; Courtesy Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London\/DACS 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is a response to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersethouse.org.uk\/press\/utopia-2016-year-imagination-and-possibility\"><em>UTOPIA 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility<\/em>,<\/a> a year-long programme of events and exhibitions at Somerset House celebrating the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More\u2019s\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 June \u2013 17 July 2016 About the exhibition Events and Downloads Curators and Acknowledgments &nbsp; In\u00a0Utopia\u00a0(1516), Thomas More imagines an apparently perfect island society in which citizens share a common language and way of life. It is a text riddled with ambiguities, paradoxes and verbal games: \u2018utopia\u2019 itself translates as both \u2018no-place\u2019 and \u2018good-place\u2019.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/\" title=\"View &lsquo;2016 Archive: Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language&rsquo;\">View <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":216,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-1463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2016 Archive: Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language - MA Curating the Art Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2016-archive-confusion-of-tongues-art-and-the-limits-of-language\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2016 Archive: Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language - MA Curating the Art Exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"16 June \u2013 17 July 2016 About the exhibition Events and Downloads Curators and Acknowledgments &nbsp; In\u00a0Utopia\u00a0(1516), Thomas More imagines an apparently perfect island society in which citizens share a common language and way of life. 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