The translator = the outsider
danger
secret
negociator
SUSPECT
A teenage boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, on the 26 May 1828
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog, 1974
The Cloud of unknowing, 14th century
Language is a bridge
Language is a wall - facteur d'exclusion
LANGUAGE
TRANSLATE
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EXPERIENCE
the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture.
Translating is dealing with differences and lack of sens.
Translating references ----- creating of a sens when there is nonsense or how to deal with a lack?
Translating - recreating
HANNAH ARENDT la pluralité des langues
"l'original est infidèle à la traduction BORGES
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world”
“What exists can be said”
"What can't sad, can be shown"
Barbara Cassin,
curator for Mucem's exhibition "Après Babel, traduire"
MUCEM exposer la traduction
THE
UNTRANSLATABLE or lost in translation
SHOULD we récupérer ce qui est perdu?
“Language did not evolve for communication, () Language is an instrument of thought”
Language is a thought; a tool, son extérnalisation est un outil auxiliaire, périphérique
Sophie Calle, Les aveugles, 1986
“Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
Rosetta Stone
La femme aux 5 éléphants
Cecilia Gimenez
"For translation, the representation of a transport is not a sufficient metaphor. This is not a transport, since the luggage never arrives. I have always been interested in what got lost along the way. What interested me was what must remain of translation beyond novelty. "
Svetlana Geier
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. Franz Kafka
Kenneth Goldsmith,
TRANSLATION
Elina Brotherus, 1999
DISPLACEMENT
grnkgnrev
rash of equivocation
a break down of a tool
poetics
grnkgnrev
A TOOL FOR
AND TRANSLATION ITSELF
recreation/ transformation
LACK OF REFERENCES
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CONTEXT
Boys' and Girls' First Dictionary, Robin Hyman
Bruno Munari, 1960
A new study led by Elinor Amit, an affiliate of the Psychology Department, shows that people create visual images to accompany their inner speech even when they are prompted to use verbal thinking, suggesting that visual thinking is deeply ingrained in the human brain while speech is a relatively recent evolutionary development.