Interview With Gesa Piper: Langauges and Multilingualism in Arts and in Uniarts

In this episode, Rong interviews Gesa Piper, an alumni of the Theatre Academy and project coordinator of TIAN (TeaK’s International Alumni Network). They reflected on Uniarts’ language policy, the main function of languages as a tool for information trading within the academy, and various linguistic aspects in their practices. Link to TIAN’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tian_uniarts/ Timestamps  (0:38) – Self-introduction  (2:07) – What roles have you taken in Uniarts?  (3:38) – Body-based artistic practice  (12:00) – Everything is in relation to languages, structures, and allegories.  (21:10) – Language is more than just an information transmitter.  (27:55) – Language as a form of art  (30:52) – The state before language  (38:54) – How do you keep all your plants watered? How do you cope with multilingualism?  (44:35) – What are your thoughts on the language policy at Uniarts?  (53:57) – What is TIAN? How has your role as TIAN coordinator been?  (66:47) – Do you have a vision of what the future might look like?