Exhibition

During the biannual conference of the Global South Studies Center, the group of colleagues who are also responsable for the first issue of The Mouth presented a small exhibition on the normaliminal in mass tourism. Besides the pictures also published in the journal, the exhibition featured a collection of motto t-shirts, with explanations on the often sexist, racist and transgressive prints. Being of quite some interest for linguists who took part in the conference, the t-shirt collection elicited comparisons to bumber stickers, paintings and writings on lorries and tuktuks, kanga imprints, and other forms of language mounted on things that move. Interestingly, the perhaps most nonsensical t-shirt, with a ‘HULA PALU’ imprint, got missing during the conference and exhibition. Who might be wearing it, and where?