SONJA JOKINIEMI INTRODUCTION The purpose of the PA A book is to share
consists of vocal, haptic, textual and
imprints, memories, mappings, conver-
movement acts and language that is in a
sations and individual languages notated
constant existential process in relation to
throughout my creative process. I strongly
things around and within. In my projects,
believe that languages escape definitions
I attempted to bring validation to the
and should be a more prominent and
subjectivity of language: to the many
visible part of our society because each
diverse aesthetic forms that it takes and
one of us has a relationship to language
where the language of an individual rises
that is intimate. In these languages, I see
to be equally valid and intellectual as the
immense poetic resources. We are always
collectively used system.
hovering between knowing and notknowing. Linguistic thinking in its diverse
I started to work with communities
forms is a way in which patterns of our
outside of the art field in a self-initiated
relationality to the seemingly outside
artistic research project called, ‘Without
world can be expressed and experienced.
an Alphabet’.1 I wanted to engage with people who use alternative communication
I have been interested in subjective
methods in their daily life, or who nearly
language systems in my artistic research
only use languages that in a way escape
for some time. I wanted to look at language
from the definition of language itself. I
in a state of becoming: language that
began from the simple idea that we could
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