Welcome to the web pages of Adib Fricke: The Word Company
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This site offers information on Adib Fricke's work with The Word Company and on the production and distribution of words that do not yet exist... Sit back and enjoy the protonyms EXPLOM, ONOMONO, SMORP, ONTOM, MISPEL or YEMMELS. Discover the best "units consisting of words."
Now you can name everything, even things that haven't been invented yet
Your word for the day - Your introduction to the The Word Company's protonyms. You can find RITOB and RIMITOM, FLOGO and NANOPES, MINGIS and AVANZ here and in addition play the computer game
TheWordCompany.de/blog - The Word Company's weblog with notes and comments about words, names, art, and other stuff
That's TWC - documents selected exhibitions and projects of Adib Fricke's
Can't simulate freedom - Hannah Arendt Thinking Space, former Jewish Girls' School, Berlin 2006
My Private Corpus - Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
Can I Feel Your Magic? - Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
You Can Dump Me - Poetic Positions, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Words with double r - Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Jam from Mexico - Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Berlin
Sharjah International Art Biennial 6, Sharjah/V.A.E.
QUIVID - Baureferat der Stadt München
SWOKS - 1st Public White Cube, Berlin
WisssenschaftsForum Berlin
Log.in, Netz | Kunst | Werk Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Witte de With, Rotterdam
WisssenschaftsForum Berlin
ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart / Berlin
Haus der Kunst, München
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge/Mass.
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Galleri Wang, Oslo
neue bildende kunst, Berlin
Das neue Wort (The New Word): A Magazine for new words published for an exhibition in the Kasseler Kunstverein
Texts for those who like to know more about TWC and words
Keywords make the world go round by Adib Fricke (with a list of keywords that guided to the TWC-site)
Nature’s Dictionary by Michael Bölker
From the Index Card Box to Corpus Lexicography by Vincent Docherty
General Terms and Conditions of Business by The Word Company
Archive – more texts about The Word Company
Words, Art and Property by Joachim Schmid,
In the Beginning was the Protonym by Bojana Pejic,
QUOBO - Interview Harald Fricke/Adib Fricke
Words a Dozen shows word lists and links to interesting word pages in the WWW.
Current projects and activities
The antonym of synonym is antonym
Leonardo da Vinci’s Smile – a random generator for producing up to apx. 30 million statements on art
The Nigthwatch by Rembrandt – a random generator for producing up to apx. 100 million snapshot captions
The Spaceship – a film in words
These web pages are for all that are interested in art and words / linguistics and the philosophy of language / branding and trademarks / protonyms and new words / units consisting of words and slogans. They are for friends of contemporary art and language.
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