• What happens if words put you in danger?
• What happens to language if Power represses you? Ignores you? Hunts you?
• How do you communicate within, beneath, and beyond the borders imposed by such Power?
Welcome to the Hush: our collage-investigation into code makers and lawbreakers living in the context of colonial, illegal or
misogynist violence.
the Hush: new writing, images, art, and poetry.
the Hush Collective* is interested in speech and what happens to its subtleties, metaphors, and purpose under duress. We
draw on codes from our own cultures and beyond: those in plain sight, lost, secreted, revived, and current. We ask…
What happens if Coded voices say ‘No’ to Power and its authority, its discrimination, its permissions, its largeness, its
zeitgeist…’
