Liza Prins

Bitterswiet: A Tiny Mulder Inquiry in Word and Voice is a collection of essays, poems, and other materials that investigate the Frisian language as a tool for resistance. During her residency at Kunsthuis SYB, Liza Prins started engaging with the life and work of Tiny Mulder. A Frisian poet and member of the Dutch resistance during WWII, Mulder grew up only a few doors away from SYB. Liza built upon the history and phonetics of Frisian to explore the impact of spoken language within her own body. Her aim is to discover how we may build a borderless, love-imbued assertion of another world. The work consists of a publication – in English and Frisian – and an audiowork in the form of a cassette. On side A of the tape, different interpretations of Tiny Mulder’s Work resound. Side B contains original audio recordings of a reading by Tiny Mulder.

Liza Prins lives and works in Amsterdam and Newcastle. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Amsterdam and is currently working on her PhD project at Northumbria University, Newcastle. Her work has been exhibited, amongst others at A Tale of A Tub Rotterdam, Zone2Source, Amsterdam and Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.