There is a stone in Muxía, a Galician seaside village, called the Waving Stone. It used to move and produce a loud and easy-to-identify sound in that process. However, it broke during a storm in 2017, forcing the place to adapt to its new characteristics: the value of that object in the landscape is not anymore its motion but the memory of that movement that people in the area keep and transmit. Both this essay and the exhibition it accompanies use this story as an analogy to talk about the linguistic transmission break of the Galician tongue and of the minoritized culture of which it is a part. Thus, the work research how the young generation who is used to hear Galician but to talk in Spanish relate to its own culture from a forced distance, making us need to do a big effort to relearn our own language. Distorted representations we received or artistic expressions that we couldn´t experience make it more difficult for us to see how a minoritized culture is never an image but an event, being constantly broken and rebuilt. Like a huge stone on the coast that, even silent, is still able to make a group of people identify around it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kkh-830 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Xague, Breogán |
| Publisher | Kungl. Konsthögskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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