Language in focus in the new issue of VIS

“We want to look at language as a tool, as a site for ethical and aesthetic experimentation and reflection – and at the various ways language is used both in the communication of, and reflection on, the research conducted within our field.” – Tale Næss, Editor for the issue.

The issue contains eight contributions that in various ways center on language. Contributions that move with language or against it, and that approach language as a site for ethical and aesthetic experimentation and reflection.

The issue was presented digitally at the Artistic Research Spring Forum 2026 in Norway. Tale Næss, editor of the issue, introduced the theme and all the expositions together with moderator Liv Kristin Holmberg. Also present were three contributing artists: Renée Turner, Vanja Hamidi Isacson (formerly a PhD candidate at SKH), and Ektoras Arkomanis.

Expositions in VIS issue 15:

• Renée Turner, The Annotated Garden & Compost
• Ektoras Arkomani, passages in translation
• Sanna Svane, Random generator as restrictive and liberative force – a study of letter combinations in Swedish licence numbers
• Vanja Hamidi Isacson, FLER_SPRÅKIG TYSTNAD : MONI_KIELINEN HILJAISUUS : MULTI_LINGUAL SILENCE
• Nora Rinne, Voicing language: approaching language through voice in intergenerational performance
• Svea Vikander, In the earth my berry lies/Maassa marjani makaa
• Eirunn Kvalnes, A poem is a small... machine made out of words
• Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, Incompleting places – surrection and mirage making through topocosmological hypering

The expositions are in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and/or bilingual.

Read the issue on the VIS website.

VIS Editorial Committee 2026: Behzad Khosravi Noori, Eliot Moleba, Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen, Tale Næss, Michael Duch, Marie Fahlin, and Mia Engberg (Efva Lilja until December 2025).