No Body To Talk To

Vaginal Davis, J. Fan, Brook Hsu, Narcissister, Res, Sydney Shen, Geetha Thurairajah

Organized by Kaitlyn Mar

The word "Chinese" had been used by 17th and 18th century Europeans to describe something that is incomprehensible; a term based on their inability and unwillingness to understand such a vast but foreign empire. Centuries later, traces of the phraseology endure. The popular children's game, Broken Telephone, or, Telephone, in which a word, or a sentence, is quietly spoken into the ear of the adjacent person until it is no longer recognizable, is still alternately referred to as Chinese Whispers. Language has a way, it seems, of being both something that brings people together, and keeps them far apart.

No Body To Talk To picks up the telephone to engage the competency of a visual language, ruminating on the value of linguistics and asking some very important questions in the process:

The egg did what with the chicken? Can a cat really just be a cat? What does bone apple tea taste like? Is it true that Andreas Gursky spent $1,532,789 on a butt plug in platinum with apache fringe? If there's nobody to talk to, do words cling?

Welcome to the Flower Shop at 89 Eldridge Street - a site of emergence, the former home of Invisible-Exports, and somewhere we hope you listen to the Chinese whispers.