{"id":31177,"title":"Mother Tongues and Father Throats","dimensions":"500 x 300 x 3 cm","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"Wool, yarn","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":27,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"mother-tongues-and-father-throats","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/781/medium_500/_WIM1477.jpg?1661179974","cached_actor_names":"Slavs and Tatars ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Other","nl":"Andere","fr":"Autre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/781/large/_WIM1477.jpg?1661179974","poster_credits":"© Slavs and Tatars. Photo: Wim Van Eesbeek","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMother Tongues and Father Throats\u003c/em\u003e turns to the throat as a source of mystical language \u0026ndash; as opposed to the tongue\u0026rsquo;s more profane, transactional role. A diagram typically used as a language teaching aid is presented on a carpet showing letters of the Arabic alphabet along with the corresponding part of the mouth used to pronounce these letters. Here, alongside the Arabic letter \u0026lsquo;qaaf\u0026rsquo; situated here at the back of the throat, the artists have added the letters for guttural phonemes [gh] and [kh] in Cyrillic and Hebrew as a nod to these letters\u0026rsquo; importance across disparate fields such as Russian futurism, Kabbalist gematria and Sufi exegesis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":4465,"name":"Slavs and Tatars "}]}