Past Programs
Multiculturalism and Ethnicity - 2008
Accent elimination
17/05/2008
The daughter of multilingual migrants, American artist Nina Katchadourian has been obsessed with language, translation, communication and miscommunication. In a video project called Accent Elimination she enlisted her parents to explore some of the contradictory aspects of foreign-ness and assimilation.
Sian Prior spoke to Nina Katchadourian in New York.
Mother tongue, father tongue
16/02/2008
A keen proponent of bilingualism, Michael Clyne grew up with two languages, one of which -- German -- became the language he gave his daughter, to become her father tongue.
