Cia Rinne writes minimalist and concrete text pieces in several languages and works with semantic shifts that are triggered by phonetic variations. The following compilation of texts relates to choice, possibilities, and the fear of missing out.
you could:
o ...
o ...
o ...
o ...
o ...
o ...
freie wahl:
o entweder
o oder
Compilation of texts from l'usage du mot, kookbooks/Berlin, Gyldendal/Copenhagen and L’ours blanc, Héros-limite/Geneva 2017
The reading of these texts took place at Ecology of Attention#1: FOMO.
Cia Rinne is a poet, author, and artist living in Berlin. Born in Gothenburg, she studied philosophy and languages in Frankfurt, Helsinki, and Athens. Her multilingual minimalist texts play with the phonetic shifts of meaning that occurs between languages and reduce complex philosophical and linguistic questions to tonal sequences. Her books have been published in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Canada, with the most recent being l’usage du mot (2017), Trial and Eros (libretto for an opera by Henrik Strindberg and Sofia Jernberg, 2019), and sentences (2019, shortlisted for the Prix Bob Calle). Her performances, exhibitions, and sound installations have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. Cia is the 2019 laureate of the Prix littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou.