Language is migrant

Cecilia Vicuña’s liberatory text Language is Migrant interrogates the capacity of language within and through our wounded oral cultures and lexical histories. With her in mind, and emanating from the 2022 edition of Colomboscope festival, SCROLL also engages with the idea of language as a complex translator and migratory force, via the medium of print. We know from Benedict Anderson that print circulation was key to the beginnings of nationalism, as well as continued “borderisation”, to use Achille Mbembe’s term. We use this format to subvert these barriers, as languages and relationships to them melt, erupt and disrupt through our pages.