FROM WHERE AND TO WHOM IS A TEXT SPEAKING? Interview with Stefan Nowotny http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=2878
As early as the start of the 1920s, in his essay 'The Task of the Translator', Walter Benjamin was already objecting to the binary nature of traditional translation methods and was promoting the idea of the transparency between an original and its translation. With the rejection of the idea of an original, Walter Benjamin anticipated something that some 60 years later had developed into a metaphor of translation of and between the cultures. By reconnecting culturally specific forms of behaviour with the literary and linguistic category text the field of translation was finally opened up for discursive and socio-politically motivated (artistic) practices. The interview with the translator and philosopher Stefan Nowotny was done within the framework of the exhibition 'Uebersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode.' taking place at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Vienna. --- --- --- GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE EXHIBITION AND DIALOGUE with Stefan Nowotny, Birgit Rinagl, Franz Thalmair 6 May 2010, 6 pm http://www.kunstraum.net In a dialogue with the curators the Vienna-based philosopher Stefan Nowotny will guide through the exhibition 'Uebersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode.' - Stefan Nowotny is a translator and philosopher living in Vienna, and a member of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. From 2005–2008 he worked on the transnational projects 'transform' and 'translate', as well as on the research project 'Translation: The Mother Tongue of a Future Society?' He has published numerous essays on philosophical and political topics, and translated a number of texts into German from French and English. The two volumes 'Instituierende Praxen. Bruchlinien der Institutionskritik' (2008, in collaboration with Gerald Raunig) and 'Übersetzung: Das Versprechen eines Begriffs' (2008, in collaboration with Boris Buden) were recently published by Verlag Turia+Kant. --- --- --- UEBERSETZUNG IST EINE FORM. | TRANSLATION IS A MODE. Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, 09 April - 29 May 2010 http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=2933 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
