update: 2024.4.3
Participating Project | International Creator Residency Program |
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Activity Based | Seoul |
City / Place stayed | Tokyo |
Period | 2024.1 - 2024.3 |
I will research about minority language in Japan and Japanese language policy change, and I will collect individuals’ memories about that. Even though the endangered language is being in current, it is hard to say that it will exist in near future. It can comment that they are in ghost stage. In terms of literature and image research, I will collect that with the keyword, ghost. Due to aging and urban-oriented policies, young people move to cities, thus far away country towns and houses becoming ghost. The process is like certain languages becoming disappearing. I would like to collect stories and images from that as a metaphor. As digital world, ocean of information is expanding, language in digital extinction is getting serious. Most linguists comment that even major languages are not free from that. To think about near future about language and Asia, I will research that, as well.