The Only Way to Find Your Voice Is to Use It
With Ingrid Persaud and Lafleur Cockburn, moderated by Annie Paul
Panel, Reading
Sun., 27.8.2023
14:00–15:30
Pavilion (Semra Ertan Garden)
in English
Free entry
![Untitled, 2023. Digital photography by Amir Denzel Hall. Courtesy the artist.](https://www.hkw.de/magnoliaPublic/.imaging/mte/hkw-de/small/dam/hkw-de/images/2023/middle-ground/Amir-Denzel-Hall--Untitled--2023-04/jcr:content/amir-denzel-hall-untitled-2023-04.jpg)
Untitled, 2023. Digital photography by Amir Denzel Hall. Courtesy the artist.
How do we rethink language dynamics from a spatial perspective instead of a reactionary position? The kaleidoscopic space of the Caribbean as a site of writing and listening between worlds and temporalities has created endless and unapologetic creoles and vernaculars which complexify the discourse around language hierarchies, reminiscent of In Praise of Creoleness, a seminal text by Jean Benabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, which asserts that ‘to create the conditions of authentic expression meant also to exorcize the old fatality of exteriority’.