Emojis’ Lack

“More than 7 billion emojis are sent every day.
72% of young people find it easier to express their feelings in emojis than in words.
The emoji keyboard now has 3000 emojis but is that enough?
Unicode adds no more than about 60 new emojis per year.
Once an emoji has been added it can never be removed.”

“How many skin colours should be represented in the emoji keyboard?
Will menstruation get its own icon? Does Kurdistan deserve its own flag in the world of emojis?”

“If you believe emoji is an emerging world language it shouldn’t be decided upon by a bunch of predominantly white predominantly male predominantly American text encoding engineers in California. It’s not a good way to run a language.”

“I think we can best describe emojis as the body language of the digital age.”

Emojis’ Lack is equally an installation and a participative group performance.
It deals with the question how a new language as emoji is built, and thus aims at the foundation of social interactions and emotional exchanges.
It does not only call on the visitors to participate, but also urges us to think about our ways of communicating and the consequences they entail on political and social level.
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