Shoum

Two Serbian men try to transcribe the lyrics of the hit song Shout by the band Tears for Fears on paper. Neither speaks any English, and so the acoustic transmission blends alien and native ingredients to yield something completely new, a text that is phonetically connected to the language of the original while being graphically rooted in their mother tongue. Shoum explores the question of belonging in our globalized world; the artist conceived it as an antithesis to Mladen Stilinović’s statement “An Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is No Artist.”