All the same bright

How does multilingual culture foster new forms of understanding? In All the same bright, Lippard centers a sound installation around a monolithic stele sculpture that functions as a contemporary Rosetta Stone, anchoring the gallery space while emitting a low, continuous drone. Analogous to ancient stone pillars that marked territory or honored gods, this architectural puzzle serves as the entry point for durational audio compositions that play on multiple speakers throughout the space, mapping our translingual, contemporary experience through carefully orchestrated fragments of English and Norwegian speech. Developed through extensive studio engineering, these layered cadences fill the gallery with thick, overlapping language. Lippard's dense sonic landscape examines how productive misunderstandings and other verbal gaps can create expanded possibilities for meaningful connection across boundaries.