Yen Noh ~ Keywords: anti-colonial affect, paralanguage, ambiguity, agenealogical filiation, connivance, spectral collectivity, collective mourning, breath, listening, learning-in-relation, performance, resonance

Yen Noh engages with language as a means of deviation from linguistic norms, focusing on opacity—illegible, incomprehensible, and untranslatable elements—in her textual, sonic, and performance work. Her practice explores the unspeakable, emphasizing the body as a conduit for transmitting this opacity. She examines how language is affected by colonization, diaspora, and migration, and attends to language’s paralinguistic aspects.

Noh is a PhD-in-Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a fellow of THIRD Cycle Research Group (2024–2026) at Amsterdam University of the Arts. She was a BAK Fellow for Situated Practice (2021–2022), engaging with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's work, and completed an MA (at DAI) on Yi Sang’s linguistic performativity (supervised by Hypatia Vourloumis).

Her recent exhibitions and publications include Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues (Vienna, 2025), [un]learning through illness (Amsterdam, 2024), The Hauntologists (Utrecht, 2022), Nothing Is—Everything Just Has Been or Will Be (London, 2021), and Representation (Kunstlicht, 2020). She lives and works in Rotterdam and Vienna.

Learn more about Yen Noh’s 20 minute presentation DidLineMurderCircle, and Run to the Lowest Paradise for "AEROPONIC ACTS  - growing roots in air" DAI's 3 day graduation lectures marathon, May 2019 at Silent Green in Berlin.

Learn more about Yen Noh’s written MA thesis (DAI, 2019): Run to the Lowest Paradise

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