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Loss in Translation is a structure inspired by a bottle gourd (lagenaria, calabash). The structure houses non-English recordings and sound art from PoC and minority artists around the world. The recordings are spoken in the artists’ native tongue and will remain untranslated. In a white, English-speaking world, artists from other backgrounds are pressured to make themselves legible to the dominant audience, often at the cost of deeper self-expression. With Loss in Translation, we evoke a vision of a world without a lingua franca, finding beauty in the diversity of human expression at a time where the machine of global capitalism commodifies, homogenizes culture and accelerates the death of languages around the world.