Hanne Lippard treats language as her principal medium—distilling its spoken and written forms into malleable, material processes. She works across vocal performance, texts, sound installations, printed objects, and sculptural forms, interweaving spoken and written modalities to reshape how language is perceived. Lippard frequently appropriates public‑domain fragments—online blurbs, advertising slogans, social media chatter—then weaves them together with her own material. She subtly manipulates these through repetition, shifting intonation, homonyms, and associative layering to reflect on embodied experiences like mental wellbeing, self‑optimization, and life filtered through digital communication. Her practice emphasizes the fragility and slipperiness of meaning: by gently teasing apart her textual sources, she reveals language’s double‑entendres, paradoxes, and potential for misinterpretation. This method, delivered through calmly obsessive utterances, resonates with Dadaist experiments in dislocation and semantic estrangement. Ultimately, Lippard transforms language itself—its structures, rhythms, and verbal architecture—into a site of artistic inquiry, where words both articulate and undo meaning. ...
