DICTIONARY
is a collective effort to define words, language, notions, terms, concepts, ideas, meanings, expressions, sayings – in other words means of communication. DICTIONARY has the format of a semi-anarchistic dictionary in which a group of participants have chosen the world of words and their meanings summed up in the final and first edition of DICTIONARY.
The editors have sought to challenge notions of ‘network’ and ‘common knowledge’ by distributing the invitation to contribute to the DICTIONARY through a web of colleagues, friends, family and their colleagues, friends and families. Who ever came across the invitation and chose to take up the challenge of contributing to the loosely defined concept of sharing knowledge and ideas, have unfolded words in ways they found suitable within the framework of a pocket size paperback.
The book contains texts of statements, ‘facts’, fictions, experiences, thoughts and ideas, in different languages, along with many visual contributions, and has references between the different contributions.
The main editorial task has been to put together all the collected material in order of the Latin alphabet. Our overall intention has been to gather different approaches to the use and perception of language, something that is continuously challenged by borders and barriers, both mental and physical ones. As Mimicry of the medium the DICTIONARY will hopefully challenge the dispositions and limits of disciplined communication, as well as being an important key as how to deal with these.
As the task of the project is quite extensive, and as the notions of ‘network’ and ‘common knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have only been examined in a shallow ocean of words and their meanings, the first edition of DICTIONARY can be seen as an invitation to contribute to the future second edition.
