〈言葉がつまずく場——「語りにくさを語る」展来場者が「言葉」で対話する〉2026年

Where Words Stumble: Dialogues from “Speaking the Unspeakable”

小森真樹

Masaki Komori

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本展に合わせて選書した書籍展と観客参加型作品。参加者は、回遊できる書棚の書物から一節をすくい上げ、引用文をふせんに書き留め壁面へと掲示する。人びとが引き出した言葉は、壁面を介して他者へと流通し、この空間の共有財として立ち上がる。言い切り、断言、わかりやすさ——余白を許さない言葉やコミュニケーションに回収されないために、言葉に「つまずく」瞬間——言いよどみ、ためらい、揺れ——を含ませながら、書籍の中に綴じられた/閉じられた「言葉」を開く場をつくる試み。ワークショップも実施。

A book display and a participatory artwork developed for this exhibition. Visitors select a passage from the books on the walk-through bookshelves, transcribe it onto a sticky note, and post it on the wall adjacent to the book’s location. Articulations extracted by participants circulate to others through the wall surface, taking form as a commons within the exhibition space.
Here, “articulation” is used in an expanded sense to designate communicative acts across modalities—verbal and nonverbal, textual and vocal, semantic and embodied—without privileging closure, definitiveness, or effortless legibility. The project seeks to open the articulations that remain bound/enclosed within books, while resisting modes of communication that demand resolution: definitive statements, categorical assertions, and an insistence on clarity that permits no margin. By allowing moments of “stumbling” in articulation—hesitation, reluctance, and wavering—the work proposes a site in which articulation can be reopened rather than sealed. A workshop will also be held."