Subverting the Monolingual Paradigm: Mapping the Creolization of German—an Artistic Research Method

Kreolisierung der deutschen Sprache is an experimental mapping in which I depict a loose network of verbal artists working with the German language who are moving beyond nationalist monolingualism by mixing a variety of linguistic influences and subverting standardized grammar in their texts and songs. In this article I outline the main questions, intentions, and considerations driving the artistic research rendered visible by the map. The article describes the shape and direction of the drawing, as well as the larger geography of knowledge in which it is located. The multidirectional manner in which the map shares the research findings on which it is based, as well as the inherent commitment by which decolonial mapmaking bridges the borders that modern academic disciplines uphold between closely related geographies of knowledge, constitutes an artistic research method that contributes to decolonizing academia.