Karin Dolk

• Works / Projects
  • Figure of speech
  • [əˈnʌðə]
  • [əˈnʌðə] Sound script + Post scripts
  • Words wound
  • A sad song
  • Ist es nicht schön?
  • Tacet
  • Talento para llorar
  • El Duelo
  • Llevo toda mi vida doblando
  • Palabras prestadas
  • De-formaciones
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  • Traduttore, traditore
  • In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
  • Still Life
  • Onomatopoetics
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  • Semantic Cannibalism
  • Cheval de Troie
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Semantic Cannibalism

Double-channel video, colour, sound, 7'00'', 2003

A person bakes and eats a piece of bread that spells the words “my words” - a ceremony referring to the embodiment of language in this literal interpretation of the metaphor.

Video stills.