@article{f83bf569-f0f0-4b6d-84a7-3cf9d10ac146,
  abstract     = {{This artistic research project introduces the concept of multilingual silence to describe the artificial monolingualism that characterizes many contexts in which national majority languages or English dominate, despite actual linguistic diversity. The exposition takes as its point of departure the development and staging of the performance SILENCE (Post Theatre Collective, Helsinki 2025), in which an international multilingual ensemble uses languages that are rarely heard on Nordic stages. Focusing on her own artistic process and linguistic repertoire as a Sweden-Finn, playwright Vanja Hamidi Isacson investigates how multilingual silence can be challenged through artistic practice. Through process texts, stage texts, a working diary, text fragments, and reflections on language portraits, the exposition analyzes how the artistic process renegotiates language, identity, and voice. A theoretical discussion of monolingual and multilingual norms, linguistic repertoires, and polyvocality deepens and situates the concept of multilingual silence.}},
  author       = {{Hamidi Isacson, Vanja}},
  issn         = {{2003-024X}},
  keywords     = {{multilingualism; performance}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  number       = {{15}},
  publisher    = {{Stockholm University of the Arts}},
  series       = {{VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research}},
  title        = {{FLER_SPRÅKIG TYSTNAD : MONI_KIELINEN HILJAISUUS : MULTI_LINGUAL SILENCE}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/vis.3670871}},
  doi          = {{10.22501/vis.3670871}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}