Noise After Babel / Language Unrestrained

An interdisciplinary project involving visual artists, theoreticians and linguists,
Noise After Babel is published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at
Gallery Oksasenkatu in Helsinki, Finland. Combining artistic and theoretical research,
the project examines language as a potential ground for political engagement.
Coupling the words Babel and noise suggests that after an intervention,
a linguistic term originally with only one meaning (babel), is replaced by an
unwanted and unbearable situation (noise). Authored by Helsinki-based social
scientist Sezgin Boynik (b. 1977) and Helsinki-based artist Minna Henriksson
(b. 1976), the publication includes contributions by Antti Eze Eskelinen, Alpo
Jaakola, Rastko Mocnik, Eetu Viren, and Milena Solomun plus interviews with
researchers Liban Ali Hersi, Minna Hjort, Ulla Horstia, Salli Kankaanpää, Mika
Lähteenmäki, Lauri Siisiäinen and Klaas Ruppel. Boynik and Henriksson are
known for their co-publishing on punk culture, the relationship between
aesthetics and politics, cultural nationalism, the Situationist International and
Yugoslavian cinema.