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Universal Tongue is a multifaceted art project by Dutch artist Anouk Kruithof based on found footage of diverse dance styles from across the globe, collected from the Internet.

The project encompasses an 8-channel video installation, a book publication, a website with an online database, and a single-channel video edition. Universal Tongue was presented at over 30 international exhibitions, including solo shows of the artist and belongs to several museum collections.[1]

About the Project

Universal Tongue exhibition at Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands, 2022.

Universal Tongue was created through an extensive research of dance found footage conducted by Anouk Kruithof along with an international team of 52 researchers.[2] For the project’s purposes 8 800 videos were collected from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, summing up to 250 hours of video material presenting a variety of dance videos from different social and cultural contexts of the globe, showcasing viral phenomena and social media trends.[3] The collected footage has been described by each researcher, who categorised in total over 1000 dance styles from all 196 countries of the world.[4]

Universal Tongue was set as an art project, which highlights fluidity, hybridity and interconnectedness of the modern digital era while honouring and celebrating the diverse historical and cultural backgrounds of the researched dances.[5][6] In 2018, Kruithof created the centerpiece of Universal Tongue - an 8-channel video installation, presented at Medialab during the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam commissioned by the curator Ward Janssen[7]. The installation is rhythmically arranged using a unified soundtrack remixed with music samples from the found footage, creating an immersive audiovisual environment for the audience of four hours duration.[8] The videos create an ongoing dance flow of looped moving images, where dance is presented as a form of an embodied knowledge of cultural identity, self-expression, fun and empowerment.[9][10] Art work's immersive character is said to invoke a blur between categories of the world order, such as country, continent or culture of dance contexts - highlighting global interconnectedness of human expression and digital culture.[11][12][13] The installation displays over 1,000 dance styles, comprising 32 hours of footage in total.[14] In addition to the 8-channel installation, Universal Tongue also exists as a single-channel video edition created in 2022.[15][16]

In 2021, Anouk Kruithof published the book UNIVERSAL TONGUE, with a second edition following in 2022.[17][18] The book documents and describes all the dance styles categorised during the project’s research, accompanied by screenshot images from the found footage videos.[19] The book is playfully described by the author as a “DANCYCLOPEDIA through the Jungle of Internet”, which pays tribute to the diversity and complexity of dance as global cultural phenomenon.[10][11]

The project's findings are also presented in an online database, accessible at https://www.universaltongue.com/dance-styles-az. This database categorises and provides detailed information on the various dance styles identified, making the research publicly available.

Disclaimer

Universal Tongue was created with footage that is published online under the Creative Common License.

Exhibitions and Collections

Universal Tongue been exhibited at over 30 international venues and it is part of the permanent collection of, among others:

  • Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany,
  • Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
  • Collection Josselin Souris in Tunis, Tunisia and Paris, France.
  • Collection Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands (single-channel video)
  • Collection Frac Alsace, Alsace, France (single-channel video)
  • Collection De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (single-channel video)
  • Collection BERG contemporary / Ingibjôrg Jonsdottir, Reykjavík, Island (single-channel video)

Solo exhibitions

As part of group exhibitions and festivals

Awards

Universal Tongue was shortlisted for Lumen Prize Moving Image Category, 2018, Golden Lion, Cinekid Festival, 2018, and long-listed for the The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, 2021. It was also nominated for CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night in Venice in the category "Bridging East and West”, 2024.

References

  1. ^ see "Exhibitions and Collections" sections of the article
  2. ^ The dance-researchers of Universal Tongue: Abhinaya Penneswaran, Alba Zari, Albert Allgaier, Alejandra Huerta Ramos, Alexandra Koumantaki, Anikó Antalfi, Anouk Kruithof, Ashiq Jahan Khondker, Assem A. Hendawi, Bob Civil, Chikara Umihara, Christiaan Kritzinger, Clarisse Mekongo aka Kirii’ah, Daleen Bloemers & Selma Hengeveld, Darcy Moore, David Kinyanjui, Duygu Atceken, Džejlana Prušević & Miona Bogović, Faouzia Haidara, Francesca Seravalle, Gina Maree DeNaia, Ginta Vasermane, Guergana Tzatchkova, Harald Smart, Jihad Yagoubi, Kalinca Susin, Keazia King, Keren Shavit, Kolbrún Lilja Torfadóttir, Ksenia Kirsta, Laetitia Jeurissen, Leo Caobelli, Liao Lihong, Maria Isabel Arango, Miia Auti, Moana J. Packo, Nina Suramelashvili, Pablo Cianca, Paola Paleari, Peter Hübert, Priscila Gómez, Resi Bender, Saman P., Samara Mitri, Ula Kahul, Vendula Knopová, Victoire Eouzan, Voin de Voin, Walter Shintani & XLE.LIFE. source: https://www.universaltongue.com/researchers
  3. ^ "Van folklore tot lap dance - MOVE! Body Politics in Motion bij MU". Metropolis M (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  4. ^ "Anouk Kruithof - Universal Tongue". Voorlinden. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  5. ^ "TOGETHER WE DANCE, DIVIDED WE FALL". artsoftheworkingclass.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  6. ^ "Liefde als politieke remedie - 'Can't We All Just Get Along?' bij galerie Stevenson in Amsterdam". Metropolis M (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  7. ^ "wardjanssen". wardjanssen.com. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  8. ^ "Museum Tinguely: Interview with Anouk Kruithof". Museum Tinguely, vimeo channel. access-date: 10.07.2024. Retrieved 10.07.2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Anouk Kruithof: Universal Tongue - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  10. ^ a b "Anouk Kruithof / Universal Tongue". artpapereditions.org. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  11. ^ a b "Arts of the Working Class, issue 18 September 2021" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Universal Tongue at Museum Tinguely, Basel".
  13. ^ "Anouk Kruithof / Universal Tongue". artpapereditions.org. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  14. ^ "Anouk Kruithof - Universal Tongue". Voorlinden. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  15. ^ "Exhibitions". Universal Tongue. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  16. ^ The project is accompanied by visual identity created in 2023 by Peter van Langen, using thin stripes from screenshots of 1,000 dance styles showcased on its website and in the accompanying book. The visuals create abstract images, which contain fragmented dance imagery, ordered by each letter of the alphabet and the "#" symbol representing the number of dance-style screenshot. For more, see: https://www.universaltongue.com/team
  17. ^ "UNIVERSAL TONGUE (second edition) – Anouk Kruithof". Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  18. ^ Kruithof, Anouk (2021). Universal Tongue (first ed.). Ghent, Belgium: Art Paper Editions in Ghent Belgium. ISBN 9789493146686.
  19. ^ The dance styles were described by the project’s researchers and Internet fact-checked with the support of a cultural anthropologist Ula Kahul. https://www.universaltongue.com/team
  20. ^ "Global Groove - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  21. ^ "Press material, Global Groove, Museum Folwang" (PDF).

Official website

Official artist's website

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