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Collaborating with institutions, curator and artists to smudge cultural
differences and attitudes across physical and national borders.
Pushing the programme, exploring the traffic in ideas that are nomadic,
with a focus on perceptions rather than stereotypes and assumptions.
We come to play, escape prejudice and shout for renegade
values of the unfixable, broken and unhomely.
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Established in 2011 by Julia and Mark Waugh.
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© Waugh Office 2025

Leaving Language
The Catalogue
2018
out of print

Sachiko Abe, Noe Aoki, Anti-cool, Tamaki Kawaguchi, Midori Mitamura, ​
Hiromi Nakajima, Tatsumi Orimoto, Mio Shirai & Kirico Tanikawa.
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Leaving Language
The Catalogue
Waugh Office Publication 2018
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The catalogue published after Leaving Language, an exhibition and event that featured 9 artists. All born in Japan but came together in 2017 at the English seaside town of Folkestone.
It was here that they shared works inspired by place, time and distance.

Noe Aoki
"The coded systems of communication are an infectious grammè that allow an articulation of thoughts while simultaneously becoming them. How then are national aesthetics translated in the era of global technological platforms? Artworks are the material engines of a desire to transform words via an intensity of other signs.
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"There are ghosts in the language of a highway and nothing crosses the borders of a text without an inheritance or debt. Every gift carries an obligation, there were nine Artists in the curator's limousine and each told her a story. The passengers rode into the sequence of dislocation that occurs when transportation evaporates and becomes a cloud: a storage system for data.
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Nothing is communicated outside the language; this is true whatever system we use. As the night sky fills with stars and we come like​ the MilkyWay over a velvet Heaven, our days are calculated through a finitude of dreams before we make the final journey."
Leaving Language
The Catalogue
Hard Cover & Dust Jacket
Size: 15x23cm
90 pages
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Waugh Office was established in 2011 by Julia Waugh and Mark Waugh,
as a hybrid platform curating exhibitions, events and publications internationally.
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