A poster announces an event, for which guests from Cameroon, India, and Lebanon were invited to orally translate excerpts from Courierspeak, a phrase-book for couriers of museum objects.

…serves all readers as well as art-historical discourse – though in this case also the person of Anna Winteler who is both professional physiotherapist and a public person – as the place where the biography is fixed. Information regarding the origins and the life of any given artist are standard in a framing introduction and reflection upon works.

The project developed for the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, was based on the proposal to build a functional copy of the exhibition gallery West Africa/Ivory Coast, originally designed in the 1970s, and to place it in a central area of the museum, on ground floor level. This exhibition architecture and space was to be offered to a number of contemporary visual artists, designers, and filmmakers from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Anlass für einen Besuch in Iqaluit, Kanada, im selbstverwalteten Territorium der Inuit war der langjährige email Kontakt mit Bildungsaktivisten dort. Für ihren Inuktitut Sprachraum kreieren und publizieren sie unter anderem neue, technologie-
bezogene Begriffe. Denn was da seit gut einer Dekade passiert, ist weltweit selten: eine einst mündliche Kultur ist dabei, sich zu verschriftlichen. Inuktitut wird seit der Einführung von Informations-
technologien in der eigenen Schrift getextet, getwittert, und als email verschickt.