[Public-engagement] Nottingham Contemporary - events on translation

[Madalina Stalniceanu]

Dear all,

You might be interested in two events around questions of translation and its intersections with critical theory and visual cultures that Nottingham Contemporary is organising in February.


A.      Conference On Translations<http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/translations-conference>
        17th Feb, 10am-5pm
        Nottingham Contemporary

This one-day event of talks and performances brings together artists and scholars to explore the cultural and political contradictions that arise in processes of translation. The conference aims to question the ambiguities embedded in translation, ranging from the erasure of languages and epistemologies by colonialism, to contemporary transnational and globalised connections.

Speakers include: Andrew Goffey, Dima Hamadeh, Fehras Publishing Practices, Ghazal Mosadeq, Quinsy Gario, Rana Hamadeh, Stefan Nowotny.



B.      From Translation as Erasure to Translation as Listening (with Rolando Vázquez)
       16th Feb, 2-6pm

This seminar has limited capacity, so if you are interested in attending, please email Carolina Rito, Head of Public Programmes and Research, at Carolina at nottinghamcontemporary.org<mailto:Carolina at nottinghamcontemporary.org>.

This seminar addresses three different orientations of translation: modernity, coloniality and decoloniality. To raise the question of translation requires us to address issues of power across the colonial difference: who translates, what is translated and for what, who holds the space of translation? The question of translation takes a different shape according to the type of mediation. Translation as modernity functions to affirm the supremacy of the dominant locus of enunciation. Translation as coloniality is a movement of incorporation as erasure of other worlds of meaning, of other forms of relating to the real. Both, translation as modernity and as coloniality work in tandem to enforce modernity as the total horizon of intelligibility, as the monopoly of the real.

Conversely, translation as decoloniality expresses ways in which the modern/colonial divide can be overcome. Translation as decoloniality is engaged with the generation of intercultural encounters towards pluriversal forms of understanding, sensing and doing. A condition for intercultural translation is to recognize each-others positionality in relation to the intersecting axes of oppression that structure the colonial divide. To practice translation decoloniality is to practice a form of listening that enables us to become grounded and legible in relation to the plurality of each-other's worlds.

Rolando Vázquez contributes to the movement of decolonial aesthesis and thought. He is associate professor of sociology at University College Roosevelt, affiliated to the research institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) and the Gender Studies Department of the University of Utrecht. With Walter Mignolo he has coordinated for eight Years the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School. In 2016 with Gloria Wekker et. al. he wrote the report of the Diversity Commission of the University of Amsterdam. In 2017 he curated the workshop: 'Staging the End of the Contemporary' for MaerzMusik at the Berliner Festspiele.  His work seeks to transgress the dominion of contemporaneity, heteronormativity and modernity/coloniality. Developing the question of precedence and relational temporalities he seeks to contribute to decolonize institutions, epistemologies, aesthetics and subjectivities.

Kind regards,
Madalina

Mădălina Stălniceanu
Global Political & Public Affairs Administrator

C3 Pope Building
Political & Public Affairs Unit
External Relations
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

e: madalina.stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:madalina.stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk>

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