Language Shapes Power

Considering through text-based art and collective practice how language hierarchies reinstigate colonial continuities.

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What is Language for you? What does it do for you?

My work investigates the coloniality of language, the fluidity of identity, and the structures that shape belonging. Through text-based art and interdisciplinary practice, I create spaces that invite reflection, challenge assumptions, and open new ways of understanding.

It carries histories, creates boundaries, and defines who is heard—and who is not.

Language is not neutral.

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René Landspersky

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Utterances as traces of thought, sites of power, and leverages for resistance.

Language makes space.

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Text is matter.

Words are embodied responses to memory, presence, and absence.

Imaginaries by Fatou Cisse

What words are for?

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CLimate cultures

#myriver

The river does not argue;
it pulses.

Goldrand

Music as Language Beyond Words

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Identity & Belonging
Migration & Cultural Transformation
Language & Power
Anticolonial Practice
Memory & Narrative

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I create spaces where language is not only analyzed—but actively rethought.

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My practice extends beyond art into dialogue, education, and collaboration.

Keynotes that challenge dominant narratives and invite critical reflection.

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Interactive sessions exploring language, identity, and power in practice.

Cross-disciplinary projects rooted in exchange, curiosity, and shared inquiry.

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Writing & Reflections

Exploring questions rather than offering easy answers.

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Thoughts on language, power, and the structures shaping contemporary life.

need no translation.

Tears and laughter

René Wilhelm Landspersky

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René Landspersky is a multidisciplinary artist and writer exploring the intersections of language, identity, and social justice.

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About René Landspersky

His work focuses on the symbolic power of language—how it shapes perception, constructs belonging, and reinforces or challenges existing structures.

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