The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is assembling a new lexicon for people's experience of climate change and environmental upheaval, writes Richard Fisher. One day, Harold Antoine Des Voeux realised ...

The project started eight years ago, when artists Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott had no words to describe the anxiety they were experiencing over California’s drought. The Bureau of Linguistical ...

“Is there a word for the kind of fatigue that comes from looking at the news on your phone? Where it feels like, as you scroll, the life is just draining out of you?” This is what I asked The Bureau ...

A dozen people — artists, scientists, academics and writers — turned up at The Bureau of Linguistical Reality’s first word salon in January 2015. They were all friends of San Francisco-based artists ...

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is an artist. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MOAH, Lancaster Museum of Art and History have featured The Bureau of Linguistical Reality's work in the ...

We believe that until we have the language to describe the changing world around us, we will not be able to fully grasp what is happening. The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork ...