Unbidden Tongues #5: Between the Teeth by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Description

Drawing on artist, poet and filmmaker Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s extensive and largely unexhibited archive of ‘work on paper’, Unbidden Tongues #5: Between the Teeth is a publication-turned-exhibition and the fifth title in the series. From never-realised film scripts to concrete poetry and artists statements written intimately in the first person, the collection of material selected for this occasion presents the varying ways with which Cha drew on her personal and familial experience as an immigrant to conceptually grapple with language and its mediation and suppression, particularly, in this case, in its written form.

Since its beginnings in 2020, Unbidden Tongues has published previously produced work by cultural practitioners busy with questions surrounding civility and civic life—particularly in relation to language and its administration. Each title is printed in black-and-white and made with the intention to keep production efforts low, easily reproducible and financially sustainable, so as to contribute as effectively as possible to a wider circulation of the work. Unbidden Tongues is edited by Isabelle Sully and the series is designed by Matt Hinkley.