Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
IN OTHER WORDS
The Black Market of Translations - Negotiating
Contemporary Cultures
in cooperation with
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.
Opening: 2. March 2012, 19 h
3 March – 15 April 2012
NGBK, Oranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin
and Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
3 March – 15 April 2012
NGBK, Oranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin
and Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
IN OTHER WORDS.
The Black Market of Translations - Negotiating Contemporary Cultures is the title of an art exhibition which uses the operations of translation - reading, understanding, interpreting and rewriting a foreign text - as a cultural strategy to cross into other cultures. The exhibition displays a market of the foreign and otherness, inviting artists that explore the language of the Other to work in-between languages and cultures, penetrating, embodying and 'contrabanding' Others' words.
Beyond the prevailing passive co-existence of multiculturalism and static cultural diversity, it is necessary to explore a significant exchange between cultures by taking up the active practice of translation. In the spirit of a black market, the exhibition temporally exposes and reveals the acts of cultural transaction, transference, and translation of this cultural economy of the in-between, posing the question whether translation could reconcile the differences that separate languages, identities, and cultures, while proposing a form of 'cultural translation' which could ultimately become a concept for further cooperation and negotiation for contemporary cultures.
As a Black Market, the metaphor of 'illegal traffic' gives room for several counter-translations and adjoins the notion of a double-exhibition, which exposes multiple translation operations - major and minor; dominant and in resistance; official and censored - thus achieving a broader understanding of the experience of globalization, including the consideration of popular, informal, and alternative practices.
Artists:
Adel Abidin, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Julien Audebert, Elena Bellantoni, Emilio Chapela Pérez, Cherimus, Julian D'Angiolillo, DETANICO LAIN, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Braco Dimitrijević, Mounir Fatmi, Ofir Feldman, Graciela Guerrero Weisson, Christoph Keller, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Daniel Knorr, Takehito Koganezawa, Oliver Laric, Karl Larsson, Adrian Lohmüller, Monroy, Muntadas, Timo Nasseri, Olaf Nicolai, Jorge Pedro Nuñez, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Timea Oravecz, Bernardo Oyarzún, Soledad Pinto, Rosãngela Rennó, Gabriel Rossell Santillán / Nik Nowak, Sona Safaei-Sooreh, Mariateresa Sartori, Demian Schopf, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Paolo W. Tamburella, Mihalis Theodosiadis, Dani Umpi, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Humberto Vélez, Luca Vitone, James Webb, Dilek Winchester.
The Black Market of Translations - Negotiating Contemporary Cultures is the title of an art exhibition which uses the operations of translation - reading, understanding, interpreting and rewriting a foreign text - as a cultural strategy to cross into other cultures. The exhibition displays a market of the foreign and otherness, inviting artists that explore the language of the Other to work in-between languages and cultures, penetrating, embodying and 'contrabanding' Others' words.
Beyond the prevailing passive co-existence of multiculturalism and static cultural diversity, it is necessary to explore a significant exchange between cultures by taking up the active practice of translation. In the spirit of a black market, the exhibition temporally exposes and reveals the acts of cultural transaction, transference, and translation of this cultural economy of the in-between, posing the question whether translation could reconcile the differences that separate languages, identities, and cultures, while proposing a form of 'cultural translation' which could ultimately become a concept for further cooperation and negotiation for contemporary cultures.
As a Black Market, the metaphor of 'illegal traffic' gives room for several counter-translations and adjoins the notion of a double-exhibition, which exposes multiple translation operations - major and minor; dominant and in resistance; official and censored - thus achieving a broader understanding of the experience of globalization, including the consideration of popular, informal, and alternative practices.
Artists:
Adel Abidin, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Julien Audebert, Elena Bellantoni, Emilio Chapela Pérez, Cherimus, Julian D'Angiolillo, DETANICO LAIN, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Braco Dimitrijević, Mounir Fatmi, Ofir Feldman, Graciela Guerrero Weisson, Christoph Keller, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Daniel Knorr, Takehito Koganezawa, Oliver Laric, Karl Larsson, Adrian Lohmüller, Monroy, Muntadas, Timo Nasseri, Olaf Nicolai, Jorge Pedro Nuñez, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Timea Oravecz, Bernardo Oyarzún, Soledad Pinto, Rosãngela Rennó, Gabriel Rossell Santillán / Nik Nowak, Sona Safaei-Sooreh, Mariateresa Sartori, Demian Schopf, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Paolo W. Tamburella, Mihalis Theodosiadis, Dani Umpi, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Humberto Vélez, Luca Vitone, James Webb, Dilek Winchester.
Project Group:
Elena Agudio, Stéphane Bauer, Elena Bellantoni, Paz Guevara, Giulia Piccini
Excerpts of Hacerme Feriante (Become a stallholder) will be screened in loop on
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
mariannenplatz 2
10997 berlin
u-bahn kottbusser tor
10997 berlin
u-bahn kottbusser tor
