E te Atua | Oh God

print designs for an installation (unlimited computer print edition) 2008
by Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn

art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff

art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff in an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara + Calum F. Kerr   
Photo: Miyuki Kasahara, 2008.

See: www.miyukikasahara.com
for more about this exhibition

Miyuki Kasahara worked with performance artist,
Calum F. Kerr on the theme of fractured communication
between people who speak completely different
languages.

She asked speakers of non-European languages to send
a message (like a message in a bottle) for the viewers in
the exhibition. She installed 180 of these as mysterious
'spy hole' messages into the walls with which visitors to
the opening were asked to respond to (to decipher the
unknown) with a pencil on paper, which was then passed
onto performance artist, Calum F. Kerr who then made
an interpretation in an adjoining space.

art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff in an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara + Calum F. Kerr


"For Whom Do You Speak?" was an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara and Calum F. Kerr, 2-22 May 2008 in the Shed-and-a-half Gallery, London.


art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff in an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara + Calum F. Kerr

art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff in an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara + Calum F. Kerr   


The two images above are 'messages' Sonja designed of Bahai prayers in New Zealand Maori. One is about wanting to shine as brilliantly as a star and the other is a blessing for one's spot, place, mountain, river, city, land and so on.

Left: Sen's text in Persian, with a transliteration. For texts not utilizing the Roman alphabet she asked for a transliteration so visitors could try and articulate the sounds of these messages.

Photo: M. Kasahara, 2008, of Sen's text
of The 5th candle by 'Abdul-Baha'
in Persian with a transliteration.

art work by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff in an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara + Calum F. Kerr    

Shown

2009       For Whom Do You Speak
Shed-and-a-half Gallery, London, U.K.

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